Strategy of Identity
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.103
POWERS OF HORROR > SEMIOTICS OF BIBLICAL ABOMINATION
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that biblical impurity (tahor/tame) is not simply a demonic force or a divine ordinance, but a "logicizing" of what departs from the symbolic order—rooted in the cathexis of maternal function—which monotheism subordinates to the Law, thereby instituting a "strategy of identity" constitutive of the speaking subject and social community alike.
two aspects, semantic and logical, of the imposition of a strategy of identity, which is, in all strictness, that of monotheism.