ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Albus Dumbledore, Hogwarts, Julia Kristeva
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Abjection: to throw off or to throw under. The abject: what disturbs identity, system, order. The in-between, the ambiguous, the composite (julia kristeva: bloody corpse, vampire, mummy, zombie, other mother. The abject has only on equality 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 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, Coraline," and that was enough. the door started to slip closed, easily as anything. Coraline has to accept her parents, rather than the adults accepting her. Reasserting identity has moment where she thinks, i can"t believe this happened, she doesn"t look anything like my own mother . Key to distinguish good mother from bad mother and casting off (abjecting) the other mother.
