ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Abjection, Rubeus Hagrid, Hogwarts
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Engb35 lecture 19 continuation of coraline and intro to harry potter. The reader is experiencing the return of the repress. Bring back to your conscious mind of the horrid views of your parents. For the child, it"s not bringing the death back to life, it"s helping the child to understand the psychotic view. To ab-ject: to throw off or to throw under. The abject is what disturbs identity, system, order. The in-between, the ambiguous, the composite (julia kristeva, powers of horror: an essay on abjection: bloody corpse, vampire, mummy, zombie, other mother. The abject had only one quality of the object that of being opposed to i : threat to subjectivity, for kristeva, original focus of abjection = maternal body. Ghost hands lent her strength that she no longer possessed. And then a voice that sounded like her mother"s her own mother, her real, wonderful, maddening, infuriating, glorious mother just said, well done,
