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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (European Perspectives Series)

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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!

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.

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.

Kristeva rules... To everyone who has some interest in the ABJECT matter, here's the Bible! Uncanny...