...corpse, seen without God and outside of science, is the utmost of abjection. It is death infecting life. Abject. It is something rejected from which one does...order. What does not respect borders, positions, rules. The in-between, the ambiguous, the composite. The traitor, the liar, the criminal with a good conscience,...

...whatever forces upon one the experience of lack or loss. According to her, what causes abjection is "what disturbs identity, system, order. What does not respect borders, positions, rules. The in-between, the ambiguous, the composite" (4). The early relationship of the child to its mother,...

...figuration that underlies the excesses of fantastic fictions and also Julia Kristeva's idea of the abject: ‘What disturbs identity, system, order. What does not respect borders, positions, rules.' In Fu Manchu, eugenicist fears about the purity of the social collectivity (the white race) and perennial...

...horror. Julia Kristeva writes that, before the corpse, "it is no longer I who expel; T is expelled. ... It is something rejected from which one does not part,...threat, it beckons to us and ends up engulfing us." 31 In his later images of eroticism mixed with death, and in his images of witches, Baldung does all...

...represented the transgression of a boundary that seemed as if it should be absolute. As Kristeva notes: "it is thus not lack of cleanliness or health that...order. What does not respect borders, positions, rules. The in-between, the ambiguous, the composite." 75 In Ruth, Gaskell refuses the split between purity...

...one sense of the word as Julia Kristeva defines it. In Powers of Horror, Kristeva writes that it is not “lack of cleanliness or health that causes abjection,...order. What does not respect borders, positions, rules. The in-between, the ambiguous, the composite.” 12 The Beetle-woman violates categories: she is an...

...outside the body, as in blood or faeces, can be a sign of the abject. But it is not, Kristeva writes, ‘lack of cleanliness or health that causes abjection...What does not respect borders, positions, rules.” 8 The abject remains as an abyss that the subject can fall into at any time: an abyss of no ‘ 5 Terry...

...in this context, the words of Kristeva: “It is . . . not lack of cleanliness or health that cause abjection but what disturbs identity, system, order....What does not respect borders, positions, rules.” It should come as no surprise, therefore, that in the sex-segregated environment of the institutional...

...serve as an uncanny reminder. Indeed, it is worth recalling in this context the words of Kristeva: "It is thus not lack of cleanliness or health that...What does not respect borders, positions, rules." 36 It should come as no surprise, therefore, that in the sex-segregated environment of the institutional...

...Kristeva writes, “the utmost of abjection. It is death infecting life. Abject. It is something rejected from which one does not protect oneself as from an...threat, it beckons to us and ends up engulfing us” (4). Writing is the fundamental means by which a culture confronts the abject, and it is from this...