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	Viewing Abjection: Film and Social Justice
		Abjection is situated in a pervious relation to pleasure and pain, fascination and disgust, attraction and repulsion.
		Butler is closer to Kristeva when she considers abjection "not as a permanent contestation of social norms condemned to the pathos of perpetual failure, but rather as a critical resource in the struggle to rearticulate the very terms of symbolic legitimacy and intelligibility" (1993, 3).
		Central to her elaboration of abjection is Kristeva’s insistence that the heterogeneity of the signifying system has been occluded by an idealist bent that Lacanian psychoanalysis inherits from transcendental philosophy, and which resolves the meaning of the sign by privileging the condensation of sound image with visual image (see PH 51).
	www.women.it /4thfemconf/workshops/spectacles2/tinachanter.htm (6569 words)

	Julia Kristeva, "Approaching Abjection"
		Abjection, on the other hand, is immoral, sinister, scheming, and shady: a terror that dissembles, a hatred that smiles, a passion that uses the body for barter instead of inflaming it, a debtor who sets you up, a friend who stabs you.
		Abjection preserves what existed in the archaism of pre-objectal relationship, in the immemorial violence with which a body becomes separated from another body in order to be - maintaining that night in which the outline of the signified thing vanishes and where only the imponderable affect is carried out.
		Abjection appears as a rite of defilement and pollution in the paganism that accompanies societies with a dominant or surviving matrilinear character.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /wyrick/debclass/krist.htm (6006 words)

	Adriane Genette (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abjection is abject precisely because it is ambiguous, uncertain, and beyond explanation.
		Abjection disturbs the 'I's sense of borders and boundaries by blurring the distinction between what is self and not-self; abjection exists in the liminal space between outside and inside.
		Abjection, in the form of darkness, confronts the men with an "imaginary strangeness and a menace that is real" that finishes by "devouring" the men (Kristeva 127).
	www.colorado.edu /English/F02_Eng4574/student_writing/Adriane_essay.htm (2941 words)

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		Abjection, masculinity, and violence in Brian Roley's American Son and Han Ong's Fixer Chao.
		Abjection by other means: Sue Williams emerged in the 1980s as a controversial painter of sexually explicit subject matter.
		Abjection and degeneration in Thomas Hardy's "Barbara of the House of Grebe.".
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=abjection (1123 words)

	Tony2906's Xanga Site
		Abjection is the removal of boundary between the subject and the object it ascertains, the self and other, the wound experienced and the wound remembered.
		Abjection itself permits but does not exactly encourage a sustained affiliation; to do so is to continually embrace death too literally, paradoxically undermining its most salient attribute of finality.
		Abjection beheld as media representation is quickly transformed into an objectified scene, despite time based media's ability to coax its viewer into an encompassing diegesis or any number of perspectival positions.
	www.xanga.com /Tony2906 (6880 words)

	Abjection
		Abjection is a state of deep and sickening horror that we experience for example when we see a corpse, see an open wound or hear of horrible crimes against children.
		Kristeva suggests that abjection is something that we must experience as a part of our psychosexual development, after the chora and before entering the mirror phase.
		Abjection in adult life is a threat of a return to the base animal place and is thus linked with the real and jouissance, and is both repugnant and attractive.
	changingminds.org /disciplines/psychoanalysis/concepts/abjection.htm (265 words)

	"Kristeva's Theory of Abjection" by Samantha Pentony
		Hence, Kristeva's theory of abjection is concerned with figures that are in a state of transition or transformation.
		Abjection also effectively deconstructs the reader's expectations of the genre and form by forcing the reader to concentrate on Carter's technique which usurps reader complacency.
		Carter uses abjection simultaneously to defamiliarise the fairy tale genre, and to undermine the reader's expectations of the form.
	www.otago.ac.nz /DeepSouth/vol2no3/pentony.html (3142 words)

	Abjection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Abjection literally means "the state of being cast out." In contemporary critical theory, it is often used to describe the state of often-marginalized groups, such as women or homosexuals.
		Often, the term space of abjection is also used, referring to a space that abjected things or beings inhabit.
		Following Kristeva's formulation of abjection in Powers of Horror - An Essay on Abjection, abjection can be seen as letting go of something we would still like to keep.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abject (274 words)

	abjection_extract (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abjection is the process of expulsion that enables the subject to set up clear boundaries and establish a stable identity.
		Should this not be enough psychic protection from abjection, she may displace her fear of the abject through religious rituals and practices that establish a clear boundary between the sacred and the profane.
		Abjection is by definition an expelling of what cannot be contained, of that which is not me, but it does not provide for the introjection of paternal imagoes or representations of morality, religion, or law as imaginary ideals.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /kscoat2/abjection_extract.htm (3305 words)

	The Ides Aglæcwif and Beowulf -- James Hala
		Abjection, then, is a reminder that our boundaries, our distinctions and dichotomies, are not inviolable, but rather are, as they were in the chora, fluid and interpenetrable.
		Abjection "does not signify death," rather "these most sickening of wastes" constitute "a border that has encroached upon everything," a border which demarcates one's "condition as a living being." Thus, the corpse "seen without God and outside of science, is the utmost of abjection."17
		Abjection preserves what existed in the archaism of the pre-objectival relationship, in the immemorial violence with which a body becomes separated from another body in order to be--maintaining that night in which the outline of the signified thing vanishes and where only the imponderable affect is carried out.
	www.english.ufl.edu /exemplaria/hala.htm (6369 words)

	Genders OnLine Journal - Abject Criticism
		Thus, melancholy is subtended by abjection, and we see that Holbein's Christ is alone in the void, deprived of supplicants, a detail that prevents the life of the body a restored place in the imagination.
		Though the Symbolic invades the cave of abjection, as must be the case in a post-semiotic world, it is allowed no release into the psychological and aesthetic binding of pain and hope.
		The question whether abjection is being equitably shared--which I have asked here with reference to its distribution as an aesthetic term--generates a method for reenvisioning gendered social, political and sexual relations, as well as providing a critical approach to other forms of exclusion.
	www.genders.org /g32/g32_covino.html (5846 words)

	Tina Chanter
		In abjection, says Kristeva, we are confronted on the one hand with our animality, and on the other hand with our early attempts to break away from the hold of the maternal object (see PH: 12-13).
		Abjection would be the relation between what the system finds unacceptable, and what the subject finds unacceptable in the system.
		Abjection makes the world a viable place, makes the world go round, it enters into the economy it seeks to undo precisely by remaining forever and impossibly outside it.
	www.usc.edu /dept/comp-lit/tympanum/4/chanter.html (5999 words)

	CongressCATH 2002: Wages of Fear (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abjection provides the impetus for revolt to a labour power sold down the river by Capitalism.
		In the heart of darkness — in the claustrophobic confines of "Nostromo" — I believe it is the power of horror that unites these off-world workers in their resistance to "The Company".
		The moral facet to abjection is seldom articulated in writings around Kristeva’s work on the subject.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /cath/congress/2002/programme/abs/10.shtml (252 words)

	Abjection, Globalisation, Ethics and organisational dynamics: Lessons from The Sopranos
		The relation to abjection is finally rooted in the combat that every human being carries on with the mother.
		Kristeva’s notion of the abject and abjection is one of fundamental challenge to the borders that help frame our identity; that notion expresses the experience of the person who is diagnosed as a borderline personality.
		For the male, confronting abjection is confronting that beyond the phallus, that is the feminine.
	www.btinternet.com /~psycho_social/Vol5/JPSS5-DC1.htm (5870 words)

	Politics and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abjection, the sublime, art, and extremity are the foci of the index, but none of the essays fails to say something about all of these ideas without concluding them.
		Abjection has long been a recognisable signifier of that which is `extreme' or `transgressive,' yet few theorists have examined this idea outside of the definitions imposed by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror.
		Alterity, grandly of the body itself but eventually in itself, is abjection but also creativity, imagination of what is possible (a future, or, to use a Deleuzian term, a becoming) and hence ethically necessary.
	aspen.conncoll.edu /politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=106 (1421 words)

	Introduction To The Devout Life Saint Francis de Sales (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Latin abjection means humility, and humility means abjection, so that when Our Lady says in the Magnificat that all generations shall call her blessed, because God hath regarded the low estate of His handmaiden, 2 she means that He has accepted her abjection and lowliness in order to fill her with graces and favours.
		Nevertheless, there is a difference between humility and abjection; for abjection is the poverty, vileness and littleness which exist in us, without our taking heed to them; but humility implies a real knowledge and voluntary recognition of that abjection.
		But while we rejoice in the abjection, we must nevertheless use all due and lawful means to remedy the evil whence it springs, especially when that evil is serious.
	www.ecatholic2000.com /desales/idl52.html (952 words)

	No.17: Inna Semetsky, "Semanalysis in the Age of Abjection
		The meaning of abjection, as described by Kristeva in her “Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection” (1982), is “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” (1982: 1).
		We experience abjection as a spontaneous reaction that may manifest in a form of unspeakable horror, often expressed at a physical level as uncontrollable vomiting, when faced with a breakdown in meaning caused by the generic loss of a habitual distinction.
		In the psychoanalytic tradition, abjection is linked to the image of the splitting mother thus to one's desire for separation, for becoming autonomous –accompanied as such by the contradictory feeling of the impossibility of performing this particular act.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /french/as-sa/ASSA-No17/Article5en.html (5062 words)

	The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
		Whereas in Kafka’s story the typography of the convicts’ abjection is a cruel torture imposed from without, the textuality of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner arises from a compulsion of ressentiment in the extreme image of the inherited ankle scar.
		The logic of abjection, if that is what it is, “could only continue to function powerfully in the shadow of a kind of monstrous collective crime with which the Abject Hero is associated but for which he is not directly responsible” (143) — much like the entropic dystopia of The Unknown Industrial Prisoner.
		For him, the world of Puroil, and in fact the universe itself, is a study in abjection — as if the complicity of all the workers in the collective crime of which their industrial servitude is but a part were only a reflection of an abject universe.
	www.users.bigpond.com /davidmu/IrelandUIP.htm (2299 words)

	AGORA: Winter 2001 Issue: Cato
		But more importantly, Kristeva shows that the process of abjecting, abjection, simultaneously founds and ruptures the integrity of the subject, produces and dissolves unity: I come to be in virtue of what I am not, of what 'I' exclude from myself in order to become myself.
		Put differently, refusing (and refused) integration, abjection is the extricated outside that enables the unfolding of an inside.
		Abjection forms and collapses the boundary between inside and outside by manifesting the necessity of borders to the maintenance of the identity of the I and the permeability of these very borders.
	www.tamu.edu /chr/agora/cato10.html (368 words)

	thirdspace 3/2 - Nielsen: Transgressive Sexuality and Discourses of Reproduction in Ginger Snaps
		According to Creed's definitions, Ginger Snaps intimates abjection in all its varying forms: the film's aesthetic is excessively gory, Ginger's transformation from adolescent girl to werewolf transgresses many borders, and finally, the girls' mother, Pamela (Mimi Rogers), is frighteningly unwilling to relinquish control of her daughters.
		Abjection occurs where the individual fails to respect the law Thus, abject things are those which highlight the 'fragility of the law' and which exist on the other side of the border which separates out the living subject from that which threatens its extinction.
		But abjection is not something of which the subject can ever feel free the subject is constantly beset by abjection which fascinates desire, but which must be repelled for fear of self-annihilation.
	www.thirdspace.ca /articles/3_2_nielsen.htm (6065 words)

	Miall -- Gothic, Kristeva extracts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abjection, on the other hand, is immoral, sinister, scheming, and shady: a terror that dissembles, a hatred that smiles, a passion that uses the body for barter instead of inflaming it, a debtor who sells you up, a friend who stabs you.
		The abjection of Nazi crime reaches its apex when death, which, in any case, kills me, interferes with what, in my living universe, is supposed to save me from death.
		Abjection, with a meaning broadened to take in subjective diachrony, is a precondition of narcissism.
	www.ualberta.ca /~dmiall/Gothic/Kristeva.htm (1623 words)

	This Music Is Difficult
		Despite these examples having thematic differences, all wholly divulge into their own abjection, an internal force that is lacking in Trent’s sappy S/M stories.
		The best definition of abjection lies in The Powers Of Horror by Julie Kristeva, the post-modern queen of the abject.
		Ascension constructs the aural metaphor of abjection as being trapped within an infinite number of glass boxes and the subsequent shattering of those boxes in an attempt to escape, despite the unavoidable lacerations that will follow.
	www.obscure.org /~rgluck/DifficultMusic.htm (1063 words)

	Theses from Uppsala University : 4762 - Det mörka våldet
		Abjection is our most primitive attempt to separate ourselves from the mother by rejecting her, while narcissism is a concept of idealisation of an imaginary father.
		If this break is not fully carried through, the ego can be trapped in melancholia, but abjection and idealisation can be repeated and later carried through in other ways by sublimation in artistic form and poetical language.
		This metaphor is analysed as a trace of a lingering mother symbiosis, also shown by the fact that abjection and melancholia are expressed in the texts.
	publications.uu.se /theses/abstract.xsql?dbid=4762 (465 words)

	By Thomas Dodson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zhang's violent and masochistic performances in Beijing East Village not only explored the experience of abjection, but also served as symbolic expenditures in which the artist ritually sacrificed his body and blood to the residents of a specific migrant community.
		The experience of abjection thrusts us outside of the oppositions of subject and object, the fundamental dualism by which we establish ourselves as subjects (Kristeva 12).
		In an experience complementary to the physical revulsion of abjection (Zhang tells us that several spectators passed out during the course of the performance), the spectators could not have avoided what Jones calls "our visceral identification with flesh that is being rent" (229).
	www.zhanghuan.com /ThomasDodsonReview.htm (2761 words)

	PlanetPapers - The Exorcist - Kristeva’s theory of Abjection applied to a fragment
		“This misplaced abjection is one way to account for women’s oppression and degradation within patriarchal cultures.” For Kristeva, the process is helped along by what she calls the ‘Cult of the Virgin,’ meaning the Virgin Mary - and so the lingering, stationary image of the defaced statue seems a good place to begin.
		The importance of the church setting and the priest’s orthodox Catholic robes cannot be overstated because they represent patriarchal law, which is the law of the superego.
		The primers of my culture.” Kristeva’s point is that the very foundations of Western civilisation are laid on repression of the abject.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/4755.php (750 words)

	Mike Kelley (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abjection, subjective destitution and the "pathetic" have arisen as a major themes of '90s art theory and practice.
		The effect of the scholarly treatment of abjection is that the abject or pathetic artist has become a standard, pathetic art as common as thrift store clothes among art students.
		Abjection is another example of art history re-inventing itself in its never-ending progression of an unfolding subjectivity defined by what interests the academy.
	www.sweetmarias.com /thompsonowen/soren/Mike_Kelley.html (2626 words)

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