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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.
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Julia Kristeva, internationally known psychoanalyst and critic, is Professor of Linguistics at the University de Paris VII. She has hosted a French television series and is the author of many critically acclaimed books published by Columbia University Press in translation, including Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature and the novel, Possessions.
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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
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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
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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This essay on the fascinating subject of the horrifying is really worthwhile reading for fans of the mysterious and macabre, or for serious readers interested in textual and contextual problems of the genre(s). Especially her study of Dostojevskij is brilliant!
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This is a book that requires persistent and diligent study. If you take your eye off the ball for a moment you will lose sight of it. Kristeva can be a tough read and a grounding in the basics of Freud, Lacan and Melanie Klein are a good preliminary preparation prior to reading her books. For anyone interested though in how the borders of the self are established, maintained and sometimes crumble, there is a lot to learn here. Kristeva has the idea that we are 'subjects in process' and that there is no such thing as a fixed or stable identity. This book looks at how the self becomes defined as such and how horrifying it can be when our borders crumble and the outside world and our internal psyches become mixed up and indistinguishable, as in psychosis. Kristeva in this book exposes the tenuously constructed and easily dismantled nature of the self and takes the reader to a place outside of the cultural security of linguistic definitions of societal being, a place where markers of certainty can disappear and everything is in a state of flux. At a time when simple definitions of human psychology abound this is an unusually deep and rich well and it brings us back to the essential mystery of human beings, who are so much more than flesh, blood and bone.
8 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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Kristeva rules... To everyone who has some interest in the ABJECT matter, here's the Bible! Uncanny...
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