SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mary Douglas, Performance Art, The Symbolic
1 Dec 2018
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Kristeva: we make abject that part of ourselves we must exclude e. g. the mother. To construct a separate identity our subjectivity is identified with the separateness of our individual bodies. Uncanny: foreign but familiar a corpse, having fallen out of the symbolic order creates abjection through its uncanniness (kristeva) Death, birth and pregnancy - stages of life,taboos: women isolated after giving birth. The abject can never be totally repressed; it forever returns to deconstruct every construction - be it philosophical, theological, psychological, social, political, cultural, or economic (kristeva 1987: 183). The corpse, seen without god and outside of science. Abject. (kristeva 1982: 4) signifies death: collapse of the border between living and not living. our vulnerability to the abject, political opportunism for violence (terrorism) It is thus not lack of cleanliness or health that causes abjections, but what disturbs identity, system, order. Taussig (1992) terror as usual political violence reveals abject the void underlying normalcy, perceptual crisis.
