In the previous chapter, I alluded to the pivotal role of the idea of crisis in Kristeva's early work. As I intimated there, Revolution in Poetic Language discusses how the crisis of modernity displaces political revolution on to a revolution in signification and into the field of aesthetics more generally. Her 1980s trilogy, which comprises her book on abjection, Powers of Horror (1982a), her book on love, Tales of Love (1987a), and her book on melancholia, Black Sun (1989a), delves further into the topic of crisis; however, instead of attending to the working-out of crisis at the wider social and political level, Kristeva's writings take an inward turn, which manifests itself in her concern with the psychical symptoms of individual crises, and which are conveyed in the individual's suffering in the face of familial and social problems. A more systematic treatment of this topic can be found in Kristeva's recent writings, beginning with New Maladies of the Soul (1995) and continued in the volumes of The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis. It is in this latter work that she develops the link between crisis and revolt more fully (see also Kristeva 2000c); as I outline in this chapter, her emphasis now lies with the assertion of the unfolding of a crisis of Western societies, coupled with modern Man's curtailed ability to generate meaning and engage in representation.