Law and Desire
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.138
POWERS OF HORROR > AN OVERFLOWING OF DESIRE
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that Christian (Pauline) theology transforms biblical abjection into sin by interiorising and spiritualising it — making it a subjectified, drive-laden relation to the Law and the flesh — such that abjection, rather than being expelled, becomes the privileged site of jouissance, sublimation, and mystical communication with the Other.
sin does not reside in the object [...] but in 'the inordinate willing of a thing good in itself.' Neither desire nor abjection, sin is a logical unruliness, an incongruous act of judgment.