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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.126
POWERS OF HORROR > *. . . QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI*
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that the New Testament enacts a structural transformation of abjection: by interiorizing impurity (relocating defilement from outside the body to inside the speaking subject), Christianity installs a new topology of subjectivity—the inside/outside boundary—that simultaneously reconciles with the maternal/pagan principle and sublates it into the category of Sin, thereby constituting a split, polyvalent speaking subject.
Through the process of interiorization, defilement will blend with guilt, which already exists on a moral and symbolic level in the Bible. But out of the merger with the more material, object-like abomination, a new category will be established—Sin.