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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Pouvoirs de l'horreur)

Julia Kristeva
1980 · French
Psychoanalytic-literary theory · French poststructuralist psychoanalysis

Kristeva's 1980 foundational psychoanalytic-literary theory of abjection

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Attribute Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Pouvoirs de l'horreur) (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Pouvoirs de l'horreur)

The primordial time of subject-formation.

Space

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Pouvoirs de l'horreur)

The boundary-space of abjection.

Matter

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Pouvoirs de l'horreur)

The abject material (corpse, wound, excrement).

Observer

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Pouvoirs de l'horreur)

The subject formed through abjection.

Energy

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Pouvoirs de l'horreur)

Energies of abjection and the breakdown of meaning.

Information

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Pouvoirs de l'horreur)

Foundational psychoanalytic-literary framework on abjection.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Pouvoirs de l'horreur)

Kristeva's abjection foundational for feminist literary theory and analysis of horror.