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"If dung signifies the other side of the border, the place where I am not and which permits me to be, the corpse, the most sickening of wastes, is a border that has encroached upon everything." This discussion on corpses and dung reminds me of the notion of taboo, which to me reminds of this handy quote from the anthropologist Edmund Leach "Language gives us the names to distinguish the things; taboo inhibits the recognition of those parts of the continuum which separate the things." So in this sense, dung and corpses and other repugnant things are taboo because they blur the boundaries between defined opposable things, i.e. identity/ food & waste

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YOUR MOM

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It is thus not lack of cleanliness or health that causes abjection but what disturbs identity, system, order.

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... I give birth to myself amid the violence of sobs, of vomits.

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... I give birth to myself amid the violence of sobs, of vomits.

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while the object seemingly brings about opposition in a binary, a structure that can be defined and fixed in meaning, the abject is opposed to "I" only in a 'space' beyond that of the object, and perhaps, the psychological norms (that suppress the id?).

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What does not respect borders, positions, rules. The in-between, the ambiguous, the composite. The traitor, the liar, the criminal with a good conscience, the shameless rapist, the killer who claims he is a savior. . . .

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It is thus not lack of cleanliness or health that causes abjection but what disturbs identity, system, order.