Clean and Proper Body
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.112
POWERS OF HORROR > BOUNDARIES OF THE SELF'S CLEAN AND PROPER BODY
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that biblical purity codes (Leviticus) follow an internal logic of separation whereby abjection of leprosy, bodily defect, flow, and blood all converge on a single fantasy: the subject's self-rebirth through rejection of the non-introjected, devouring maternal body, such that the clean, proper, symbolic body is constituted precisely by expelling all traces of its debt to nature/the mother.
The body must bear no trace of its debt to nature: it must be clean and proper in order to be fully symbolic.