Two-Faced Mother
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.168
POWERS OF HORROR > THOSE FEMALES WHO CAN WRECK THE INFINITE > THE TWO-FACED MOTHER
Theoretical move: Kristeva reads Céline's split maternal figure as the structural locus of abjection: the idealized/artistic mother and the suffering/castrated mother together embody the threat that femininity poses to infinity and to the subject's narcissistic integrity, making maternity the privileged site where abjection and scription intersect.
The theme of the two-faced mother is perhaps the representation of the baleful power of women to bestow mortal life.