Exclusory Prohibition
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.74
POWERS OF HORROR > DEFILEMENT AS RITUAL RESCUE FROM PHOBIA AND PSYCHOSIS
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that incest prohibition serves a libidinal-economic function—veiling the ambivalence of primary narcissism and foreclosing a jouissance-laden return to abjection—and that ritual defilement operates where symbolic prohibition is too weak to contain the abject maternal, threatening not castration but total dissolution of the subject.
The symbolic 'exclusory prohibition' that, as a matter of fact, constitutes collective existence does not seem to have, in such cases, sufficient strength to dam up the abject or demoniacal potential of the feminine.