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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]
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 ...
Julia Kristeva (/ ˈ k r ɪ s t ə v ə /; French:; born Yuliya Stoyanova Krasteva, Bulgarian: Юлия Стоянова Кръстева; on 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s.
Creed further acknowledges the influence of Julia Kristeva, by examining the notion of abjection. According to Kristeva, abjection is the failure to distinguish what constitutes as "self", and what is "other". [3] It is a breakdown of borders between human existence and non-existence. [3] Creed argues that abjection theory is profoundly ...
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Julia Kristeva's concepts of jouissance and abjection are employed by American Gothic authors such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman. [6] Kristeva theorizes that the expulsion of all things defiling, much like a corpse, is a common coping mechanism for humanity. [6] Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" exploits this concept. Furthermore, "The Yellow ...