Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection is an essay by Julia Kristeva, originally written in French in 1980 and translated into English in 1982 [by Leon S. Roudiez]. POH is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection and all it entails. Starting with Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan's theories, Kristeva examines 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 refers 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 self and other. The primary example for what causes such a reaction is the corpse (which traumatically reminds us of our own materiality); however, other items can elicit the same reaction: the open wound, shit, sewage, even the skin that forms on the surface of warm milk.
ISBN (numero de identificación del libro)
ISBN 0231053460
Número de páginas
219
OCLC (Servicio Online de bibliotecas)
8430152
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