Abominable Body
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.110
POWERS OF HORROR > THE MAN/GOD DISTINCTION: A DIETARY DISTINCTION
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that the biblical system of dietary abomination is not merely a code of food taboos but a structural logic of separation whose deepest function is to differentiate the speaking subject (the son) from the archaic, abject maternal body — thereby establishing that symbolic identity, signifiability, and law itself are founded on the violent exclusion of the feminine/maternal.
the terms, impurity and defilement, that Leviticus heretofore had tied to food that did not conform to the taxonomy of sacred Law, are now attributed to the mother and to women in general.