Mother-Child Dyad
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.72
POWERS OF HORROR > PROHIBITED INCEST VS. COMING FACE TO FACE WITH THE UNNAMABLE
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that the "feminine" as unnamable otherness is not a primeval essence but a pre-verbal border zone—coextensive with primary narcissism—that precedes the paternal prohibition and the advent of language; poetic language is theorized as an attempt to re-symbolize this archaic, pre-verbal jouissance, while the failure to traverse it opens onto psychosis or perversion.
such a narcissistic topology has no other underpinning in psychosomatic reality than the mother-child dyad.