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Stan Houston, The ‘Powers of Horror’: Abjection, Critical Realism and Social Work, The British Journal of Social Work , Volume 53, Issue 4, June 2023, Pages 2314–2330, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac198
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Assessment is a pivotal part of social work process and is meant, amongst other things, to identify the deep-seated causes of human behaviour and well-being. This search for causation, it is argued, can be illuminated through a critical realist understanding of the person in society. In line with this philosophical stance, this article introduces a little considered causative mechanism pertinent to social work assessment: that of psychological abjection. Formulated by the French psychoanalytical theorist, Julia Kristeva, abjection serves to differentiate the self from the ‘abject’ or what is viewed as atypical in presentation. This concept is then scrutinised leading to the enlarged notion of social abjection; that is, the ‘othering’ and shaming of social groups which are viewed as anomalous. The implications of both psychological and social abjection for social workers are subsequently considered. At this point, the countervailing causative mechanism of recognition is proposed to mitigate abjection, and an argument is made for applying it within narrative social work and emancipatory groupwork. Finally, it is contended that social workers must commit to abjection work. This effort involves professionals gaining insight into how the abjection mechanism affects their inner world of perception and emotion, assessment of situations, and approach to service users.
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that to know abjection, to abreact it, especially to write it, is to know "the inseparable obverse of his [man or woman's] very being" (p. 208). Feminism's claim to abjection would then be a myopic one "that is jealous of conserving its power - the last of the power-seeking ideologies" (p. 208) where something like artistic ordeal and transsexual
The Speaking Abject in Kristeva's Powers of Horror. Thea Harrington. Philosophy. Hypatia. 1998. This essay analyzes the implications of the performative aspects of Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror by situating this work in the context of similar aspects of her previous work. This construction…. Expand. 24.
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (French: Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection) is a 1980 book by Julia Kristeva.The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection, in which Kristeva draws on the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to examine horror, marginalization, castration, the phallic signifier, the "I/Not I" dichotomy, the Oedipal complex, exile, and ...
APA (7th ed.) Citation. Kristeva, J. (1982). Powers of horror: An essay on abjection. Columbia University Press. Chicago Style (17th ed.) Citation. ... Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Columbia University Press, 1982. Warning: These citations may not always be 100% accurate. Check our Citation Resources guide for help ...
The book was swiftly translated into English, appearing in 1982 as Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Kristeva, 1982). It notably preceded the English-language translation of Kristeva's ground-breaking Revolution in Poetic Language which was published in French in 1974 (Kristeva, 1974) but only translated into English in 1984.
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Julia Kristeva - 1982 - Columbia University Press. The Speaking Abject in Kristeva's "Powers of Horror". Thea Harrington - 1998 - Hypatia 13 (1):138-157. ... Citations of this work. The Uses and Abuses of French Discourse Theories for Feminist Politics. Nancy Fraser - 1992 - Theory, Culture and Society 9 ...
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.
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Abjection, according to Kristeva in her seminal work, 'The Powers of Horror' , is an intrinsic, deep-seated, intrapsychic mechanism procreating and preserving a discerned identity within the human subject. Having significant causative properties, its purpose is to affirm and conserve human subjects' individuality, sense of self and inner ...
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July 13, 2018. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1982) Julie Kristeva's Powers of Horror is a massively important text for any scholar interested in horror or the abject. Although she does pull a lot on Freudian theory (which I don't always agree with), she provides plenty of helpful insights into understanding abjection.
This essay analyzes the implications of the performative aspects of Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror by situating this work in the context of similar aspects of her previous work. This construction and its relationship to abjection are integral components of Kristeva's notion of practice and as such are fundamental to her critique of Hegel and Freud.
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Julia Kristeva. 31 Dec 1979 -. TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach approaching abjection, from filth to defilement, from Filth to Defilement and something to be scared of. View 20 related papers. Abstract: I. Approaching Abjection2. Something to Be Scared Of3. From Filth to Defilement4.
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Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, published in English translation by Columbia University Press.
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Tina Chanter - 2006 - Hypatia 21 (3):86 - 106. details. This essay examines the connections between ignorance and abjection. Chanter relates Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection to the mechanisms of division found in feminist theory, race theory, film theory, and cultural theory.
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