Carnivalesque Subjectivity
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.174
POWERS OF HORROR > THOSE FEMALES WHO CAN WRECK THE INFINITE > MY CHILD, MY SISTER
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that Céline's idealization of femininity—figured through childlike, sisterly, or angelic women—operates as a phantasmatic defense against abjection: by displacing sexuality onto innocence and carnivalesque ambiguity, the subject defers the abject encounter with feminine sex, while the resulting identity-dissolution (brother/father/satyr) is ultimately resorbed into the grotesque rather than resolved.
Carnival covers up incest. From one identity to another, unfinished like the novel itself, abjection is resorbed in the grotesque: a way of living it from the inside.