Sin as Constitutive Debt
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.131
POWERS OF HORROR > SIN AS DEBT, HOSTILITY, AND INIQUITY
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that the Christian conception of sin operates on two registers—as debt/iniquity (constitutive of the subject, anchoring superego morality under the gaze of the Other) and as the reverse side of love/beauty (enabling a conversion into jouissance that exceeds legalistic retribution and tames the demoniacal), making sin the unexpected requisite for the Beautiful.
on the level of debt and iniquity, even more so than that of impurity, sin is set forth as constitutive of man, coming to him from the depth of his heart, thus recalling the original sin of Adam.