Powers of Horror
Download or Read eBook Powers of Horror PDF written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Julia Kristeva |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2024-03-26 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780231561419 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0231561415 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Powers of Horror by : Julia Kristeva
Book excerpt: 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. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.
