Sacrifice and Abomination
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.120
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.
sacrifice and abomination, reveal their true interdependence at the moment when the corpse topples from being the object of worship over to being the object of abomination.