Sacramental Speech Act
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.142
POWERS OF HORROR > AN OVERFLOWING OF DESIRE > FELIX CULPA: SPOKEN SIN. DUNS SCOTUS
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that Duns Scotus's sacramental theology enacts a shift from judicial-punitive abjection to a verbal-covenantal logic, whereby the act of enunciation (confession, spoken sin) becomes the locus of absolution — making *felix culpa* a phenomenon of enunciation rather than moral action, and grounding art as a lateral extension of this same speech-power over abjection.
Power henceforth belongs to discourse itself, or rather to the act of judgment expressed in speech and, in less orthodox and much more implicit fashion, in all the signs (poetry, painting, music, sculpture) that are contingent upon it.