“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.”
― Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
― Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
“[the abject] is simply a frontier, a repulsive gift that the Other, having become alter ego, drops so that the "I" does not disappear in it but finds, in that sublime alienation, a forfeited existence.”
― Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
― Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
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