Parareligious Formation
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.189
POWERS OF HORROR > LOGICAL OSCILLATIONS: AN ANARCHISM
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that Céline's pamphlets are structured by two interlocking logics: a rage against the Symbolic Law (religion, reason, abstraction) and a fantasy substitution of a full, immanent, primary-narcissistic Law embodied in Race/Family/Rhythm/Jouissance — and that when this anarchic negativism attempts to totalize, it crystallizes into the Jew as the phantasmatic object of abjection, making anti-Semitism a parareligious formation that intensifies wherever the symbolic code fails to contain abjection.
Anti-Semitism, for which there thus exists an object as phantasmatic and ambivalent as the Jew, is a kind of parareligious formation; it is the sociological thrill, flush with history, that believers and nonbelievers alike seek in order to experience abjection.