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Powers of Horror
An Essay on Abjection
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Julia Kristeva
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
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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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.”
Reviews
Critics who seek an alternative to sexist and, in general, imperialist practices in psychoanalytic writing will want to read [this book].
Peter Connor, Barnard College:
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.
Dazzling.
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eBook published on:
March 26, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9780231561419
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eBook ISBN:
9780231561419
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