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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.118
POWERS OF HORROR > BOUNDARIES OF THE SELF'S CLEAN AND PROPER BODY > INCEST TABOO
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that the incest taboo functions as the originating "mytheme" underlying the entire system of biblical dietary and purity prohibitions, such that abjection — oral, excremental, and corporeal — is structurally inseparable from the symbolic contract, not merely one semantic value among others but its unconscious foundation.
it is the corpse—like, more abstractly, money or the golden calf—that takes on the abjection of waste in the biblical text. A decaying body, lifeless, completely turned into dejection, blurred between the inanimate and the inorganic, a transitional swarming, inseparable lining of a human nature