Apocalyptic Laughter
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.215
POWERS OF HORROR > THE LAUGHTER OF THE APOCALYPSE
Theoretical move: Kristeva identifies Céline's "comedy of abjection" as the literary-stylistic limit-form of abjection: a laughing apocalypse without god, in which exclamatory suspension encodes an affective ambivalence at the level of enunciation itself, and where jouissance and horror coincide in a style that dissolves all ideological support.
Confronting the apocalypse, he exclaims with a horror close to ecstasy. Celinian laughter is a horrified and fascinated exclamation. An apocalyptic laughter.