Original Scholarly Monograph

In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the natu

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An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.

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