“During that course in which "I" become, I give birth to myself amid the violence of sobs, of vomit.” IdentityAbjection Book:Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Source: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
“Do not all attempts, in our own cultural sphere at least, at escaping from the Judeo-Christian compound by means of a unilateral call to return to what it has repressed (rhythm, drive, the feminine, etc.), converge on the same Celinian anti-Semitic fantasy? And this is so because, as I have tried to explain earlier the writings of the chosen people have selected a place, in the most determined manner, on that untenable crest of manness seen as symbolic fact—which constitutes abjection.” SexismAnti SemitismMonotheismAbjection Book:Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Source: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
“Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.” DoeCuttingSubjectsDangerContraryAcknowledgePerpetualAmbiguityAbjection Author:Julia Kristeva
