Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Kristeva, Julia

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231214575)

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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Kristeva, Julia

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

$24.00
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Kristeva, Julia

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Julia Kristeva
ISBN-10: 023121457X
ISBN-13: 9780231214575
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2024
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.57d
By Julia Kristeva
By Julia Kristeva
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Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Kristeva was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 "for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature."

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