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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism) (English and French Edition) by Julia Kristeva is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism) (English and French Edition) about?
The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection, 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.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.
Who reads Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Ctiticism) (English and French Edition)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
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- Author
- Julia Kristeva
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 1982
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231053471
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (2,444 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Pouvoirs de l'horreur (Points essais) (1983)
- Pouvoirs de L'horreur (English) (1982)
- The Social Model of Disability in India : Politics of Identity and Power (2021)
- Pouvoirs de l'horreur: Essai sur l'abjection (Collection Tel quel) (1980)
- Pouvoirs de l'horreur: Essai sur l'abjection (Collection Tel quel) (2015)
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