Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

by Julia Kristeva

Book Overview

In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand C line, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023121457X
• ISBN13: 9780231214575
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Are You Subject to Abjection?

Excellent resource for the Lacanian scholar, if you are looking specifically at abjection. If you are looking at Subjectivity theory overall, however, this is too specific. Luckily, my focus is abjection, and this book really did wonders for the article I'm working on!

Difficult but worthwhile, ohmy!

Don't be abjected even further than you already are, read this book and allow Kristeva's language to take you on a hallucinatory journey to the limits of symbolization. The act of reading this book can be, at times, an excersize in facing/coping with abjection. If you're patient, go slow, and finally understand thirty percent of this book, you'll be leagues ahead of most intellectuals out there.

Uncanny...astonishing...

Kristeva rules... To everyone who has some interest in the ABJECT matter, here's the Bible! Uncanny...