Argento embraces Anna's tremulous, hard-bitten vulnerability with an uninhibited ardor that recalls a melodramatic Italian tradition _ older than cinema itself _ of diva abjection.
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His work is mocking and meandering but can really get under the skin, and prick at latent feelings of abjection, loneliness, the inability to communicate, futility ."
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They have tended to give their animal works fancy titles, with the same themes cropping up again and again _ sacrifice, sex, death, control, possession, abjection.
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After abjecting the mother, subjects retain an Slasher films thus provide a way for audience members to safely reenact the process of abjection by vicariously expelling and destroying the mother figure.
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They see the send-offs of Cordelia, Fred and other characters as part of a pattern of highly gendered " elaborated abjection " seen in " Angel ".
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His work is often an exercise in abjection and self-humiliation and an exorcism of infantile feelings that sometimes involve grotesque forms of female drag and a fair amount of physical pain.
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Do you not see inherent in your doctrine all the evils engendered by permanent inequality-pride, violence, scorn of fellow men, tyranny and abjection in all their forms ?"
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He saw it as a sacred duty to tell the story of those who had reached the bottom of abjection, but considered himself unworthy, even guilty, because he came out alive.
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Kristeva's concept of abjection is utilized commonly and effectively to explain popular cultural narratives of horror and misogyny, and builds on the traditional psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.
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He's a self-made grotesque, a bogeyman teen-agers use to scare parents; he seesaws between demagoguery and abjection, tearing up Bibles and then slashing his own chest.
