![]() ![]() Whereas the objet petit a allows a subject to coordinate his or her desires, thus allowing the symbolic order of meaning and intersubjective community to persist, the abject "is radically excluded and," as Kristeva explains, "draws me toward the place where meaning collapses" (Powers 2). Kristeva's understanding of the "abject" provides a helpful term to contrast to Lacan's objet petit a (or the "object - cause of desire"). The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection, in which Kristeva draws on the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to examine horror, marginalization, castration, the phallic signifier, the "I/Not I" dichotomy, the Oedipal complex, exile, and other concepts appropriate to feminist criticism and queer theory.Īccording to Kristeva, the abject marks a "primal order" that escapes signification in the symbolic order the term is used to refer to the human reaction ( horror, vomit) to a threatened breakdown in meaning caused by the loss of the distinction between subject and object, or between the self and the other. Essai sur l'abjection) is a 1980 book by Julia Kristeva. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection ( French: Pouvoirs de l'horreur. ![]() ![]() 1982 (Columbia University Press, in English). ![]()
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