Apprehensive, desire turns aside sickened, it rejects. It beseeches, worries, and fascinates desire, which, nevertheless, does not let itself be seduced. It lies there, quite close, but it cannot be assimilated. "There looms, within abjection, one of those violent, dark revolts of being, directed against a threat that seems to emanate from an exorbitant outside or inside, ejected beyond the scope of the possible, the tolerable, the thinkable.
Robertson Smith, Arnold van Gennep, and Alfred Reginald Radcliff-Brown, or Rudolf Steiner, have noted that secular " filth," which has become sacred " defilement," is the excluded on the basis of which religious prohibition is made up."- Powers of Horror - An Essay on Abjection (1982) by Julia Kristeva "Anthropologists, since Sir James George Frazer, W. Isolating them from the whole of his writings constitutes a defense or a claim on the part of the political left or right it is at any rate an ideological stance, not an analytic or literary position."- Powers of Horror - An Essay on Abjection (1982) by Julia Kristeva "Doubtless contradictory, hotheaded, "raving" if you wish, Celine's pamphlets (" Mea Culpa", 1936, " Bagatelles pour un massacre", 1937, " L'Ecole des cadavres", 1938, " Les Beaux Draps", 1941), in spite of their stereotyped themes, carry on the wild beauty of his style.