Abjection (Kristeva)
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.160
POWERS OF HORROR > SUFFERING AND DESIRE: A DEBILITY > INGRAINED CARNAGE
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that in Céline's writing, abjection and murder are mutually constitutive—abjection is "edged with murder" and murder is "checked by abjection"—and that this carnage, traversing bodily degradation (vomit, excrement, death rattle), climaxes in a momentary sublimation before collapsing back into abjection, making violence the formal engine of Céline's literary style.
Abjection is edged with murder, murder is checked by abjection.