![]() Kristeva seems to be arguing that we long for systems and structure because they supply us with support and an understanding of the world around us. Kristeva expands this concept in the opening of her book when she states, “There looms, within abjection, one of those violent, dark re-volts 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.” ( Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Columbia University Press, 1982, pg. In Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva asserts that horror stems from the abject or that which lies outside of our systems of structure or understanding. ![]()
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