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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 Celine, Proust, Joyce, and other authors.

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Dazzling. * SubStance *
Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror, which theorizes the notion of the ‘abject’ in a series of blisteringly insightful analyses, is as relevant, as necessary, and as courageous today as it seemed in 1984. -- Peter Connor, Barnard College
Critics who seek an alternative to sexist and, in general, imperialist practices in psychoanalytic writing will want to read [this book]. * Discourse *

Table of Contents
I. Approaching Abjection
2. Something to Be Scared Of
3. From Filth to Defilement
4. Semiotics of Biblical Abomination
5.... Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi
6. Céline: Neither Actor nor Martyr
7. Suffering and Horror
8. Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite
9. "Ours to Jew or Die"
10. In the Beginning and Without End...
11. Powers of Horror

Powers of Horror

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      Publisher Columbia University Press
      Published 13 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9780231214575
      978-0231214575
      ISBN-10 023121457X
      Also in:
      Non Fiction ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 Celine, Proust, Joyce, and other authors.

      Trade Review
      Dazzling. * SubStance *
      Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror, which theorizes the notion of the ‘abject’ in a series of blisteringly insightful analyses, is as relevant, as necessary, and as courageous today as it seemed in 1984. -- Peter Connor, Barnard College
      Critics who seek an alternative to sexist and, in general, imperialist practices in psychoanalytic writing will want to read [this book]. * Discourse *

      Table of Contents
      I. Approaching Abjection
      2. Something to Be Scared Of
      3. From Filth to Defilement
      4. Semiotics of Biblical Abomination
      5.... Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi
      6. Céline: Neither Actor nor Martyr
      7. Suffering and Horror
      8. Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite
      9. "Ours to Jew or Die"
      10. In the Beginning and Without End...
      11. Powers of Horror

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