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What is abjection?
"state of being cast off" - connotations of degradation, baseness
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Poststructuralist views on abjection
Abjection inherently disturbs identity and cultural concepts.
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Julia Kristeva
abjection if the subjective horrone one, and one's body, experiences when confronted with one's 'corporeal reality'; breakdown of distinction between what is the self and other.
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Name of her book?
Powers of Horror
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Powers of Horror definition of the abject
"Me that is not me"
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Poststructuralist views on abjection

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Abjection inherently disturbs identity and cultural concepts.

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Julia Kristeva

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Name of her book?

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