ABSTRACT
In Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror the abject is associated with material that produces a reaction of horror because it threatens the distinction between subject and object or the boundary between self and other. Abject material can include bodily fluids, wounds or corpses, and the horrified or repulsed responses these can produce in the viewer is not because of what they mean, since abjection is not to do with symbolic meaning, but to do with deep, primal and unconscious drives.
