Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection - Paperback

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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection - Paperback

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection - Paperback

by Julia Kristeva
$43.20
$43.20

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 Céline, 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.
ISBN9780231214575
Author Julia Kristeva
PublisherColumbia University Press
GenreLiterature and Self-help & personal development
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages248
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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