Translation for '
abjection' from English to Spanish
NOUN | an abjection | abjections | |
SYNO | abasement | abjection | degradation |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Georges Bataille saw the lure of the feet as linked to their anatomical baseness (abjection).
- In her 1987 paper, "From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism", Creed's approach to understanding the monstrous male figure also draws on Kristeva's notion of abjection.
- Syriza has called Georgiadis's claims an "ahistorical abjection".
- This concept is closely related to Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, where one reacts adversely to something forcefully cast out of the symbolic order.
- is unique in Romanian literature through its ability to recall a rather fragile moment in history, and its distanced, discreet, and sober way of detailing a decaying social environment (and most of all its casual mixture of abjection and a high sense of morality).
- As Kristeva puts it, "The corpse, seen without God and outside of science, is the utmost of abjection.
- The psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva would subsequently explore anal eroticism in connection with her concept of abjection.
- Studying abjection has proven to be suggestive and helpful for considering the dynamics of self and body hatred.
- It explores piracy and illegal trade in American literature as a form of self-representation by colonial subjects facing abjection due to exclusionary citizenship and property laws.
- In the late 20th century, scholars including Derrick Bell, Lewis Gordon, and Cornel West developed concepts of antagonism and abjection that bear similarities to components of Afro-pessimism but without reaching the same conclusions.
- The novel has also attracted significant scholarly attention with the novel now recognised as a significant "grunge" text (although that term and that genre are contested) and a notable example of a feminist text featuring erotic (some would say 'pornographic') content and this has been widely debated in literary circles with particular reference to the concept of abject bodies and abjection.
- The performances made use of abjection and shock value to mock religion and norms around sexuality.
- In his view, difference produces distinctions and differentiations that leads to exclusion and abjection.
- In "Powers of Horror" (1980), Julia Kristeva elaborates her theory of abjection and recognises the influence of Douglas's "fundamental work" but criticises certain aspects of her approach.
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