Avowal
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.139
POWERS OF HORROR > AN OVERFLOWING OF DESIRE > AVOWAL: CONFESSION
Theoretical move: Kristeva traces the structural logic by which Christian confession transforms avowal into a discourse-founding act: by loading speech with sin (negativity, drive-heterogeneity), the act of enunciation before the Other both absolves and constitutes the power of discourse itself—anticipating Freud's theorization of the heterogeneity of drives as what any discourse must bear.
The avowal of faith is thus from the very start tied to persecution and suffering... the act of avowal, within the register of persecution and victimization.