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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.162
POWERS OF HORROR > SUFFERING AND DESIRE: A DEBILITY > THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that Céline's scription locates itself at the crest of abjection—where decomposition and composition, suffering and music, abomination and ecstasy coincide—and that his apocalyptic vision is not a philosophical revelation of truth (aletheia) but an exposure of jouissance as History's abject motive, irreducible to any ideological or ontological grounding.
Without the war it is hard to imagine a Celinian scription; the war appears to trigger it off, to be its very condition