Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection is a seminal work of psychoanalytic and literary theory in which Julia Kristeva develops her influential concept of abjection to explore the boundaries of subjectivity, language, and the body.
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| Powers of Horror | 1 |
| Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Context triple: [Julia Kristeva, notableWork, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection]
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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex is a 1993 philosophical and gender theory book by Judith Butler that further develops her concept of gender performativity by examining how material bodies are produced and constrained through discourse and power.
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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence is a collection of essays by philosopher Judith Butler that examines vulnerability, grief, and the politics of violence and representation in the context of contemporary war and terrorism.
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life is a seminal philosophical work that examines how modern political systems produce "bare life" by excluding certain individuals from legal and political protections through the logic of sovereign power and states of exception.
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Anti-Oedipus
Anti-Oedipus is a seminal 1972 philosophical work by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari that critiques psychoanalysis and capitalism while introducing the concept of “desiring-production.”
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
The Sublime Object of Ideology is a 1989 philosophical work by Slavoj Žižek that applies Lacanian psychoanalysis to Marxist theory to explore how ideology structures subjectivity and social reality.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Target entity description: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection is a seminal work of psychoanalytic and literary theory in which Julia Kristeva develops her influential concept of abjection to explore the boundaries of subjectivity, language, and the body.
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A.
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex is a 1993 philosophical and gender theory book by Judith Butler that further develops her concept of gender performativity by examining how material bodies are produced and constrained through discourse and power.
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B.
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence is a collection of essays by philosopher Judith Butler that examines vulnerability, grief, and the politics of violence and representation in the context of contemporary war and terrorism.
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C.
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life is a seminal philosophical work that examines how modern political systems produce "bare life" by excluding certain individuals from legal and political protections through the logic of sovereign power and states of exception.
-
D.
Anti-Oedipus
Anti-Oedipus is a seminal 1972 philosophical work by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari that critiques psychoanalysis and capitalism while introducing the concept of “desiring-production.”
-
E.
The Sublime Object of Ideology
The Sublime Object of Ideology is a 1989 philosophical work by Slavoj Žižek that applies Lacanian psychoanalysis to Marxist theory to explore how ideology structures subjectivity and social reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
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linked to: Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection