Powers of Horror

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Julia Kristeva. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez

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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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I. Approaching Abjection

2. Something to Be Scared Of
3. From Filth to Defilement
4. Semiotics of Biblical Abomination
   5.... Qui Tollis Peccata Mundi
5. Céline: Neither Actor nor Martyr
6. Suffering and Horror
7. Those Females Who Can Wreck the Infinite
8. "Ours to Jew or Die"
9. In the Beginning and Without End...
10. Powers of Horror
    Notes
    Index