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Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others. . . . [Powers of Horror] is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on paraphilosophical modes of discourse. -- Paul de Man
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Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others...[ Powers of Horror is] an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse. The sections on Céline, for example, are indispensable reading for those interested in this writer and place him within a context that is both illuminating and of general interest.
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This review is from: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives Series) (Paperback)
Excellent resource for the Lacanian scholar, if you are looking specifically at abjection. If you are looking at Subjectivity theory overall, however, this is too specific. Luckily, my focus is abjection, and this book really did wonders for the article I'm working on!
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Difficult but worthwhile, ohmy!,
This review is from: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives Series) (Paperback)
Don't be abjected even further than you already are, read this book and allow Kristeva's language to take you on a hallucinatory journey to the limits of symbolization. The act of reading this book can be, at times, an excersize in facing/coping with abjection. If you're patient, go slow, and finally understand thirty percent of this book, you'll be leagues ahead of most intellectuals out there.
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abject waste of time,
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This review is from: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives Series) (Paperback)
This book is unintelligible and I truly doubt that one would be "way ahead" of the intellectuals to understand 30% of it. Kristeva needs to tone down the effusive gibberish. The only parts I found interesting and accessible were her literary analyses. But, indeed, I would call this work pseudo-philosophy.
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There looms, within abjection, one of those violent, dark revolts of being, directed against a threat that seems to emanate from an exorbitant outside or inside, ejected beyond the scope of the possible, the tolerable, the thinkable. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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There looms, within abjection, one of those violent, dark revolts of being, directed against a threat that seems to emanate from an exorbitant outside or inside, ejected beyond the scope of the possible, the tolerable, the thinkable. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
incest dread, biblical impurity, pour une autre fois, primal repression, phobic object, pure signifier, paternal function, borderline patient, social aggregate Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Douglas, New Testament, Instalment Plan, London Bridge, Georges Bataille, Second World War, Les Beaux Draps, Robertson Smith, Des Entrayes, Lazarus Morell, Lord Yahweh, Name of the Father New!
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