Rhythm as Pre-Symbolic
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.199
POWERS OF HORROR > IN THE BEGINNING AND WITHOUT END . . .
Theoretical move: Kristeva reads Céline's stylistic project as a movement from emotional depth through rhythm and sound toward the void, tracing how the drive to "resensitize language" stages an encounter with an unnameable otherness that traverses abjection rather than merely expressing it — the trajectory being: emotion → melody/rhythm → void.
Even though that search for the emotional depths is described in terms of a substantial plunge into the 'very intimacy of things,' Celine is the first to realize that melody alone reveals, and even holds, such buried intimacy. The worship of emotion thus slips into glorification of sound.