Browsing by Subject "Abjection"

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    “Being then nothing”: physicality, abjection and creation in Janice Galloway’s short fiction
    (Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, 2019) Sacido Romero, Jorge
    This article explores the prominence of the body in Janice Galloway’s short fiction. Drawing mainly on Kristeva’s notions of the semiotic and the abject, the argument initially establishes the central place of physicality in Galloway’s poetics. Her creative project is inspired by a desire to transmit in writing the experience of being alive, of how being is intrinsically fragile, inexorably bound to extinction. In a particularly sharp manner that engages the reader more actively than her novels, her short stories exhibit both formally and thematically an interaction of the symbolic and the semiotic. As being attentive to life entails an awareness of death if one is to write realistically, the ensuing discussion of stories from her three collections –Blood (1991), Where you find it (1996) and Jellyfish (2015)– reveals that abjection, the extreme version of the semiotic that threatens to cancel out the symbolic, is paramount in her creative universe.
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    Corporeal abjection and hopefulness in Oscar Wilde’s “Charmides” (1881).
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Hueso-Vasallo, Manuel; Universidad de Málaga. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.
    This paper addresses the potential relationship between corporality, abjection, and hope in Oscar Wilde’s “Charmides” (1881). The main aim of inspecting this connection is to establish how Wilde makes use of abjection in order to defend the idea that sexual dissidence can, indeed, offer the possibility of hope. In other words, the paper focuses on how Wilde describes abject bodies and abject bodily acts in the poem in a way that ultimately defies the social and moral conventions of his period. It argues that acts that may be considered abject –such as same-sex desire– can be hopeful when addressed from a different perspective. This paper hopes to establish a clear connection between the poem, the abject, and Wilde’s defiance of the sexual mores of his period.
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    Entre fusion et fissure la maternité à l’épreuve de la folie dans Comme une mère de Karine Reysset.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Keltoum, Soualah; Sin departamento asociado
    El artículo analiza la representación de la maternidad y la locura en Comme une mère de Karine Reysset a través de las trayectorias de Émilie y Judith. Émilie, enfrentada a un parto anónimo, oscila entre el rechazo y la aceptación de su rol materno, encarnando un recorrido neurótico hacia la separación. Judith, marcada por un duelo imposible, cae en la psicosis, intentando llenar su vacío mediante una fusión delirante con el hijo de otra persona. Basándose en Lacan y Kristeva, el estudio explora cómo la maternidad revela una carencia fundamental, atrapada entre pulsiones semióticas y el orden simbólico. La locura surge cuando el lenguaje no logra estructurar la alteridad, conduciendo a la abyección o al delirio. Émilie preserva su identidad a través del habla, mientras que Judith, privada de simbolización, colapsa en un real crudo. La maternidad se presenta como una prueba de alteridad, equilibrando fusión y separación, donde el equilibrio psíquico depende del reconocimiento del otro.