Abjection Quotes

“During that course in which "I" become, I give birth to myself amid the violence of sobs, of vomit.”
― Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

“Empty man. Walk thru shadows. All lives the same. They give you wishes. The old people at the window. Dead man. Rised, come gory to their side. Wish to be lovely, to be some other self. Even here, without you. Some other soul. Than the filth I feel. Have in me. Guilt, like something of God's. Some separate suffering self.”
― LeRoi Jones, New American Story

“Do not all attempts, in our own cultural sphere at least, at escaping from the Judeo-Christian compound by means of a unilateral call to return to what it has repressed (rhythm, drive, the feminine, etc.), converge on the same Celinian anti-Semitic fantasy? And this is so because, as I have tried to explain earlier the writings of the chosen people have selected a place, in the most determined manner, on that untenable crest of manness seen as symbolic fact—which constitutes abjection.”
― Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

“To journey to Hell means to become Hell oneself.”
― C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

“Do I have to smash a glass over the head of every single man I come into contact with, just so I leave a fucking mark?”
― Eliza Clark