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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (French: Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection) is a 1980 book by Julia Kristeva.
- Julia Kristeva
- 1980
A book that explores the psychological and cultural dimensions of horror, abjection, and the other in literature and philosophy. The author analyzes the works of Celine, Freud, Hegel, and others, and develops her own theory of abjection as a defense mechanism against the threat of annihilation.
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POWERS OF HORROR. An Essay on Abjection. JULIA KRISTEVA. Translated by. LEON S. ROUDIEZ. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS. New York 1982. I. APPROACHING ABJECTION. No Beast is there without glimmer of infinity, No eye so vile nor abject that brushes not Against lightning from on high, now tender, now fierce. Victor Hugo, La Legende des siecles.
Powers of Horror provides insights for feminist, queer, new historical, psychoanalytical, and cultural theories and illuminates the intersections between them. This guide is based on the 1982 Columbia University Press edition, translated into English by Leon S. Roudiez.
Apr 21, 2009 · Powers of horror : an essay on abjection. by. Kristeva, Julia, 1941-. Publication date. 1982. Topics. Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 1894-1961, Horror in literature, Abjection in literature. Publisher.
A critical analysis of Kristeva's book that explores the concept of abjection as a founding metaphor of culture and a dialectic of the semiotic and the symbolic. The reviewer questions the universal and essentialist claims of abjection and its relation to the maternal, the feminine, and the religious.
In Powers of Horror, 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 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors.
- Julia Kristeva
