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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, [1] 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 ...
Drawing on the French tradition of interest in the monstrous (e.g., novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline), [4] and of the subject as grounded in "filth" (e.g., psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan), [5] Julia Kristeva developed the idea of the abject as that which is rejected by or disturbs social reason – the communal consensus that underpins a social order. [6]
In her comparison between the two disciplines, Kristeva claims that the way in which an individual excludes the abject mother as a means of forming an identity, is the same way in which societies are constructed.
Within horror films this theory of a border and the breaking of rules and norms is important as it relates to the formation of the monstrous, which suggests that anything that navigates or exists across this "border" is abject. [5] Kristeva's theory therefore can be applied to the monstrous feminine, particularly the themes of the mother-child ...
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Israel has announced the names of the three hostages set to be released Saturday, in what would be the sixth exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners under the ceasefire deal that came into ...
Julia Kristeva developed the idea of the abject as that which is rejected by or disturbs social reason – the communal consensus that underpins a social order. [8] The "abject" exists accordingly somewhere between the concepts of subject and object , representing taboo elements of the self barely separated off in a liminal space. [ 9 ]
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