Hallucination of Nothing
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.52
POWERS OF HORROR > DEVOURING LANGUAGE
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that language acquisition and verbal activity originate in the attempt to introject a lost (maternal) object, making the phobic object the "hallucination of nothing" — a metaphor-as-anaphora pointing toward an unknowable non-thing — and that writing, unlike analytic interpretation, does not convert this confrontation with the ab-ject into a fantasy of desire but instead unfolds the logico-drive strategies of abjection itself.
The phobic object is in that sense the hallucination of nothing: a metaphor that is the anaphora of nothing.