Sin-Beauty Conversion
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.132
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.
Such a conversion into jouissance and beauty goes far beyond the retributive, legalistic tonality of sin as debt or iniquity. Thus it is that, by means of the beautiful, the demoniacal dimension of the pagan world can be tamed.