abjection
IPA: ˈæbdʒˈɛkʃʌn
noun
- A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
- (obsolete, chiefly figuratively) Something cast off; garbage.
- (obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
- (obsolete) The act of casting off; rejection.
- (sociology) The fact of being marginalized as deviant.
- (biology, mycology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores.
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Examples of "abjection" in Sentences
- A key point of the notion of abjection is that the abject is or was essentially a part of us in some profound sense.
- It doesn’t matter if abjection is motivated by an actual irrational response or if it’s all just a performative show.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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).