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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (French: Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection) is a 1980 book by Julia Kristeva.The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection, in which Kristeva draws on the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to examine horror, marginalization, castration, the phallic signifier, the "I/Not I" dichotomy, the Oedipal complex, exile, and ...
- Julia Kristeva
- Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection
- 1980
- 219 pp.
The corpse, seen without God and outside of science, is the utmost of abjection. It is death infecting life. Abject. It is something rejected from which one does not part, from which one does not protect oneself as from an object. Imaginary uncanniness and real threat, it beckons to us and ends up engulfing us.
13 de jul. de 2018 · July 13, 2018. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1982) Julie Kristeva’s Powers of Horror is a massively important text for any scholar interested in horror or the abject. Although she does pull a lot on Freudian theory (which I don’t always agree with), she provides plenty of helpful insights into understanding abjection.
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1 de may. de 1980 · What is this mysterious power behind the curtain of so many intense, uncomfortable emotions? It’s called abjection. It is the subject of Julia Kristeva's book, The Powers of Horror. Abjection is what happens when there is a breakdown of the distinction between self and other.
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Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Pp. 219. This dazzling book gives new formulation to certain aspects of Kristeva's previous work on presymbolic meaning by reapplying conceptions of elusions from paternal lan-
21 de nov. de 2014 · Kristeva’s Powers of Horror analyzes powerful fantasies of eating and devouring associated with both animals and women, particularly mothers. The first half of Powers of Horror, which sets out the theory of abjection, could be read as an account of the essential link between animal and mother in the constitution of the human psyche.
