Abjection

Technologies of Seduction “There can be no question of escaping the twisted logic of theoretical writing; there are only different ways of coming to terms with it.” (Shaviro 11) Blind Beast (Masumura Yasuzo 1969), Ghost in the Shell (Ohii Mamoru 1995), and Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao 2001) sustain the relation between the ‘body’ and ‘technology’: its terrific horror is its seduction. Captured bodies cut, cybernetic bodies hacked, and fattened bodies served. These three films all capture

Penetration in some form is usually present in sexual activity and penetration is an overall theme throughout both films. The penetration that takes place in Interview With The Vampire and Bram Stokers Dracula does not take place from sex, instead, penetration comes from fangs, and yet the tone is extremely sexual in nature. The scene in Interview With The Vampire where Le Stat brings two women back to their home is a great example. In the scene, Le Stat bites one woman on the breast and she squeals

Though the present is an outcome of past contemplations and actions, Pinter does not reveal the past as he wants the audience to think about the various possible ways in which past can influence the present. Furthermore by leaving the interpretations open to the audience, Pinter tries to portray that historical archives as storehouses of narratives of the past, cannot be fully relied upon, as these are narratives written in accordance to the dictates of those in power and as such are biased in their

In William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Faulkner portrays the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her dying wish to bury her in the town of Jefferson. Faulkner utilizes humor in the novel to lighten the mood of death and as an act of transgression against the orthodox Christian views of death as it relates to good souls dying and becoming angels. Addie Bundren’s son, Vardaman, relates to the orthodox Christian views of death, and the synonymous use of humor with these views ultimately

------------------------------------------------- Abject Design ------------------------------------------------- A psychoanalytic/structuralist analysis of Julia Kristeva’s “The Old Man and the Wolves” Julia Kristeva’s The Old Man and the Wolves details the gradual degeneration of the fundamentally corruptible community of Santa Varvara. As described by the novel’s namesake, the Old Man Septicious Clarus, in terms of singularity, morality and—both metaphorically and palpably—humanity, each

before and after the transformation was almost as marked as the transformation itself. In this way, the physical abject is not only a cause of the social abject, but also a symbol of it as well. Furthermore, Gregor’s descent into social and physical abjection then forces his family to change radically in order to support themselves. In the beginning, Gregor starts off as the provider for his family. He hates his job, but he still goes above and beyond the call of duty to give his family a more comfortable

Analysis on the Significance of Gender in the Development of Fear in Lifeless Planet The use of fear in entertainment literature, movies, and video games reflects some of the beliefs of society at the time. Lifeless Planet, an action and adventure platformer video game developed by Stage 2 Studios, tells the story of an astronaut whose mission to explore another planet teeming with life goes dreadfully wrong, stranding him and separated from his crew members on the planet. To his surprise, as he

Christine Wilkie Stibb’s The Outside Child In And Out Of The Book examines the construction of the child subject within a text, and contextualizes that construction by connecting to historical, social and political events outside the text. She does this by taking real-world (ie: historical, social and political) instances and connecting them to each book. Each chapter focuses on a different construction of the child outsider: outsider (the child as subject and the creation of subjectivity); displaced

Act II deals with the famous interrogation scene which begins with some legitimate questions but soon a torrent of ridiculous questions are showered on Stanley. Language is used as a violent tool of abjection by Goldberg and McCann and it serves to intensify Stanley’s paranoia and lay the foundations of his nervous breakdown. Austin E. Quigley in his article The Language Problem suggests that, “Stanley is confronted by two visitors, who overcome his self-confidence neither by employing silence nor

Virginia Woolf maintains her pacifism as an arm of “thinking,” rather than physical fighting. She writes in her essay “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid, “unless we can think peace into existence we…will lie in the same darkness” (Woolf 242). In arguing the same point, she mentions that “there is another way of fighting for freedom without arms; we can fight with the mind” (Woolf 242) which indicates a pacifism that is not tolerant of violence in any capacity. Instead her essay argues that violence