Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

by Julia Kristeva

Book Overview

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 para-philosophical modes of discourse."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231053479
• ISBN13: 9780231053471
• Release Date: April 1982
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Are You Subject to Abjection?

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!

Difficult but worthwhile, ohmy!

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.

Uncanny...astonishing...

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