How To Use Abjection In A Sentence
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Whether a phrase like “the rape of the countryside” trivialises rape or not it is not part of the distinct process of abjection that results in racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise asininely bigoted slurs.
On Profanity: 4
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The ‘free markets’ of this New Classicism have not stopped the abjection and exclusion of others; instead, social abominations have intensified.
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And it is long past time that all segregation was ended, not just for those of us I am calling queer, not just for the gays and lesbians, the trans and bisexual, the intersexed and asexual, not just for all those of whatever sexual orientation or gender identity, but for people of colour, for people of disability, for any and all whose absence from our screens is due to their abjection.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Every night I sat beweeping our separation and that which I suffered, since thy departure, of humiliation and ignominy, of abjection and misery.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Today the far right uses the unconscious urges of gender-sex abomination and abjection toward Others.
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This tale of ‘falling from grace,’ from divinity to abjection, of the subjection of feminine powers to the reprobation and constraints of the patriarchy society seems to be a universal trope.
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While this bond structures the confession as a dialogue, it also encourages, and sometimes manipulates, the intimacy, dependence, and abjection of the confessant.
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Thinking of it as abjection of what is or was a part of one’s self is part of the reason I suspect the term gathers a lot of its meaning from its use in “literary sf” or “literary fantasy”.
War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…
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Every night I sat beweeping our separation and that which I suffered, since thy departure, of humiliation and ignominy, of abjection and misery.
Arabian nights. English
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He can't bear the fact that ‘the deception and abjection that filled his own soul was what he saw also in others, always.’
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And insofar as we might say that the poetry of emotion is synonymous with its expression in language, then it becomes clear that writing from a place of the 'overwrought', the 'cheap', the 'excessive', the 'insufficient' and the 'incapable' is actually also writing from a place of abjection women writers are consigned to in a kind of categorical quarantine.
David's comment
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Immediately we turn to expressions of hope and faith, of God's history of faithfulness, before turning to words of abjection and humility.
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It doesn’t matter if abjection is motivated by an actual irrational response or if it’s all just a performative show.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
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In a stunning affirmation of the artistic impulse, they made beauty out of abjection, and that, at least, is a triumph.
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Abjection : Objection To investigate the HIV and Syphilis infection rates among different population.
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His intensely physical lead performance careens from raving belligerence to groveling abjection.
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He is slumping in despair and abjection, a feeling he is becoming increasingly used to during these days of prosecution evidence.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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The Vera Icon clearly shows the humiliation and abjection of the incarnate Christ.
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a total detachment from things below -- an entire renunciation of the most innocent pleasures; have given birth to a sluggishness, to a pusillanimity, to an abjection of soul, to an insociability, that renders him useless to himself, dangerous to others?
The System of Nature, Volume 1
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The thrown-off abject, the product of abjection, is thus the symbolic and disguised repository of that violence and basic otherness-of-the-self-within-itself, the means for staking out a supposed identity over against it.
Hogle, Introduction, Frankenstein's Dream, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles
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But his love of life is wonderful; I go further: I, who sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of this attachment, and when I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide, I find it in my heart to pity him.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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A key point of the notion of abjection is that the abject is or was essentially a part of us in some profound sense.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Abjection, evacuation and ecstasy all commingle in this terrified exaltation.
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But his love of me is wonderful; I go further: I, who sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of this attachment, and when I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide, I find it in my heart to pity him.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Understanding her dance has rested upon a binary that relegates ballet to a position of abjection, impurity and ugliness.
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This is so, he concluded, because for the generality of humankind death comes as an imposition: it is a form of abjection to which all must submit with resignation, and which all must accept because they have no choice.
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He is slumping in despair and abjection, a feeling he is becoming increasingly used to during these days of prosecution evidence.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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[T] aken as a whole, cogent piece of work, Paris makes an underwhelming survey of the state of the art house - nothing here even whiffs at the rarified abjection found in Antonioni's segment in 1953's similarly conceived, Rome-set L'Amore in citta," writes Nick Pinkerton at indieWIRE.
GreenCine Daily: Paris je t'aime.
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But if a story simply exploits that causal relationship rather than interrogating it, representation of abjection can shade into perpetration of abjection.
Kings
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Standing firmly on the side of the poor (if only because he himself lived in abject poverty), Bloy embraced the Beatitudes ' inversions, rewriting abjection as election.
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The term “sensation novels” emerges as a profoundly apt encapsulation of the qualities of strangeness this process of abjection is locked onto (and one that is a precursor of “genre fiction” and comparable with “coloured people” in its disregard for the sensationalist content of writers like Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë and countless others in the canon).
What is Literary Fiction?
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Since ‘abjection is coextensive with the Symbolic Order,’ any representation of that order can be scrutinized for its hidden presence.
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The struggle between abundance and abjection is an age-old story that has left physical and psychic scars on the watery landscape of the Delta.
