Abject - Abjection
On this page 1 section ›
This concept page does not yet have synthesis content. The extractor flagged it as a load-bearing concept; a future synthesis pass will populate it. The All Occurrences section below shows every place it appears in the corpus.
All occurrences
Where it appears in the corpus (1)
-
#01
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva
POWERS OF HORROR > DEFILEMENT AS RITUAL RESCUE FROM PHOBIA AND PSYCHOSIS > EXCREMENTS AND MENSTRUAL BLOOD
Theoretical move: Kristeva establishes a structural typology of pollution objects — excremental vs. menstrual — that maps onto two distinct axes of identity-threat: external (ego vs. non-ego) and internal (within sexual/social identity), thereby grounding abjection in the logic of boundary-constitution rather than mere disgust.
polluting objects fall, schematically, into two types: excremental and menstrual