Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

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駘ine, 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 religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.

Author: Julia Kristeva
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 02/13/2024
Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780231214575