Lapsing Subject
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.128
POWERS OF HORROR > FROM ABOMINATION TO LAPSE AND LOGIC. FROM SUBSTANCE TO ACTION
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that Christianity effects a structural transformation of abjection by converting it from a matter of *substance* (the pure/impure dichotomy) into a matter of *action* (sin as act), with the Eucharist functioning as catharsis of the primal oral-devouring fantasy; yet this spiritualization cannot fully sublate the carnal remainder, leaving the subject as a "lapsing" being split between body and spirit—a heterogeneity that is ultimately Real.
the Christian subject, completely absorbed into the symbolic, is no longer a being of abjection but a lapsing subject.