Powers of Horror
1980 book by Julia Kristeva / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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, and other concepts appropriate to feminist criticism and queer theory.
Author | Julia Kristeva |
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Original title | Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection |
Translator | Leon S. Roudiez |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Series | European perspectives |
Subject | Abjection |
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Pages | 219 pp. |
ISBN | 0231053460 |
OCLC | 8430152 |
According to Kristeva, the abject marks a "primal order" that escapes signification in the symbolic order; the term is used to refer to the human reaction (horror, vomit) to a threatened breakdown in meaning caused by the loss of the distinction between subject and object, or between the self and the other.