Persecutory Machine
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.122
POWERS OF HORROR > ABOMINATION OF CORPSES WARDS OFF DEATH WISH. TAXONOMY AS MORALS
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that biblical abomination-taboos constitute a structural displacement of sacrifice: where sacrifice binds the subject to the sacred through a killed/fascinating object, abomination operates metonymically to install symbolic law and taxonomy in place of sacrificial logic — a move that channels the death drive into a persecutory "machine" of abjection that simultaneously constitutes the subject of the Symbolic.
The system of abominations sets in motion the persecuting machine in which I assume the place of the victim in order to justify the purification that will separate me from that place as it will from any other, from all others.