Abjection

In the film industry, women act as the devil’s portal because they are deemed weaker compared to the men – in The Exorcist, it is Regan. According to a psychological interpretation of the film by Blatty and Friedkin, Regan’s parents are divorced, she is jealous of Burke, she’s often rejected by her dad (clover, 1992:71) and that the relationship with her mother was fine and great before that. With that being said, Regan’s relationship with her mother is why she was possessed. After the

Section 2.3 “The Woman” by Juan Bosch is so short, one might think it was a simple tale. That would be a mistake, for this little story is like an acorn, a germ of a huge epic tale. To see the fully developed vision of this story, each element must analytically cultivated and with each piece, a political cultural narrative is developed. This story can be read on different levels, specific, general, and universal. A fully expanded analysis can be used to understand the mindset of some repressed peoples

I have had a long attraction to vampires ever since I was a young person. I remember watching the movie INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994) for the first time, I was mesmerized. Louis played by the actor Brad Pitt and Le Stat played by Tom Cruise were sophisticated, worldly, exciting and most of all sexy. They were not sexy in the traditional sense of “tall, dark and handsome”, more like pale and with sunken in eyes, but yet I found myself deeply attracted to them. I found their lure and mysteriousness

Introduction In this essay I seek to explore the impact of Sigmund Freud’s thesis on the uncanny has had on art culture. I will be focusing on the surrealist movement, and artists such as, Hans Bellmer, Ron Mueck and Marc Quinn; I will discuss how they have investigated this idea throughout sculptured bodily forms. I will identify aspects of individual art works to understand how the uncanny body is presented in art. Freud described the feeling of uncanny as ‘unheimlich’, translating to unhomely

Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party is a play which sheds light on the pathology of abjection and violence both physical and verbal and its effect on its victim - Stanley- the protagonist of the play. Stanley is an artist who has isolated himself from a totalitarian state or organization for reasons left undisclosed in the play by Pinter. Since Pinter as a Jew grew up during the time of the Holocaust and the Second World War, Stanley seems to represent the author’s existential anxiety. It can be assumed

postponed until the morning of the 29th” (55). When the reader is introduced to the main character we get the impression that he is a part of this historical mission when he says “ I care nothing for a barbarous country which imposed upon me the abjection of being a spy” (56). However; as the plot moves forward Borges hints with intertexuality,

After his long tale, the Creature finally explains his ultimate goal in approaching Frankenstein: “You must create a female for me. With whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse” (Shelley 137). The Creature sees this female companion as his only chance to return to a benevolent state; he needs this female creature to sympathize with him and his experiences, among other possibilities

artists body with an endoscopic camera. The piece is composed of a cylindrical room with padded walls where the viewer is invited to enter and view the video of Hatoum’s internal body, displayed on the floor of the room. Using Kristeva’s strategy of abjection the internal cavities are magnified and distorted into a grotesque monster that have the effect of swallowing up the viewer. ”The symbolisation of the womb as house/room/cellar.” (Creed, 1993, p.55) The work is accompanied by an echograph of Hatoum’s

Sigmund Freud’s theory about a repressive civilization can be seen more prominently in Dawn of the Dead because we know how they contributed to society prior to the apocalypse. Stephen and Francine worked for a television network, and Peter and Roger are both police officers. They have all deserted their responsibilities to guarantee their own immediate survival as the zombie turmoil boils out of control. When there is no authority in power, society can’t defend itself from the packs of zombies.

shi-e that accumulates when gazing at a dead person. In addition, the consummation of animal meat, which is said to contain shi-e, is frowned upon up till a mourning period of forty-nine days. This revulsion against shi-e is further evidenced in the abjection and discrimination against the Burakumin community, who are a class of people that dealt with the removal and disposal of corpses and animal carcasses, as well as the butchering and skinning of animals for leather making. Due to their exposure to