Definition & Meaning | English word ABJECTION

Definitions of ABJECTION

1. A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
2. (obsolete, chiefly, figuratively) Something cast off; garbage. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16^th century.]
3. (obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down. [Attested from the early 16^th century until the mid 17^th century.]
4. (obsolete) The act of casting off; rejection. [Attested from the early 17^th century until the mid 17^th century.]
5. (sociology) The fact of being marginalized as deviant.
6. (biology, mycology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores.

Examples of Using ABJECTION in a Sentence

• Her sizeable body of work includes books and essays which address intertextuality, the semiotic, and abjection, in the fields of linguistics, literary theory and criticism, psychoanalysis, biography and autobiography, political and cultural analysis, art and art history.
• The concept of abjection builds on the traditional psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, whose studies often narrowed in on the experience of the disintegration of personal distinctions, through neurosis in Freud and psychosis in Lacan.
• The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection, in which Kristeva draws on the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to examine horror, marginalization, castration, the phallic signifier, the "I/Not I" dichotomy, the Oedipal complex, exile, and other concepts appropriate to feminist criticism and queer theory.
• Manco also commented that it echoes "November Spawned a Monster" in its discussion of "blameless youth, dysfunctional corporeality, social and sexual abjection, and divine culpability".
• Issues of gender, marginalisation, and abjection are significant themes explored—in her 1998 performance work, Still Waters (between estrangement and reconciliation), Victor performed within the drains of the Singapore Art Museum, the role of which Victor explores in her doctorate thesis, Abjection: Weapon of the Weak, writing:Such drains were a relic of the building's colonial architecture, made purposeless by retrofitted glass walls that turned a once-exposed balcony on the second-floor into a sealed, controlled air-conditioned space for artworks.
• Scholars Shoshana Rosenberg and Hannah Reardon-Smith frame the means and aims of Dreamcrusher's "affective atmosphere" as "electronics and harsh vocals (often screamed into the face of their audiences) to explore queerness, experiences of violence, and feelings of societal and relational abjection", but write that the resulting "psychophysiological states" can be transformative, generating "an ethics of care, through mutuality, solidarity and empathy".

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