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Concluding on Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror (1980) and focusing here on H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928). Does Lovecraft's presentation of nameless terror capture (or improve upon) what Kristeva means by "abjection"?
For the full Cthulhu experience, listen to the Phi Fic discussion of the story. If you're really hardcore, we recommend you listen to the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast episodes 42, 43, and 44. Before either of these, you should read the story online, or listen to it, or better yet, purchase The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
More good background info: Lovecraft's essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature," Freud on the Uncanny per Wikipedia, this guy's master's thesis bringing together Freud and Kristeva with Lovecraft, and Eugene Thacker's Tentacles Longer Than Night: Horror of Philosophy (Vol 3)
In finishing up Kristeva, we read from the Stanford Encyclopedia entry on psychoanalytic feminism.
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End song: "The Other" by Mark Lint feat. Lucy Lawless from Mark Lint's Dry Folk.
might be hard to grasp Kristeva on these matters without some sense of Andre Green, Artaud, and Bataille.
be cool if you folks could get Eugene Thacker on to discuss philo and horror or at least read some of his work.
http://www.boundary2.org/2017/06/eugene-thacker-weird-eerie-and-monstrous-a-review-of-the-weird-and-the-eerie-by-mark-fisher/