Name: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
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Author: Julia Kristeva
ISBN: 9780231214575

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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Julia Kristeva

Publisher

Columbia Univ Pr

Language

English

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780231214575

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Julia Kristeva (Author) · Columbia Univ Pr · Paperback

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Synopsis "Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) "

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.

Julia Kristeva

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She is a writer, psychoanalyst, member of the University Institute of France, and a professor at the University Diderot-Paris VII, where she heads the Doctoral School "Language, Literature, Image" and the Roland Barthes Center. She holds doctorates from numerous universities and is a member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society. She is part of the Economic and Social Council of France and chairs the National Council "Disability: Awareness, Information, Training". In 2004, she received the Holberg Prize (Norway); and in 2006, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought (Bremen). She has written about thirty books, novels, and essays, including Strangers to Ourselves (1988), The Samurai (1992), The Female Genius: Hannah Arendt, Vol. I (1999), Melanie Klein, Vol. II (2003), Colette: A Female Genius (2007).

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