The Monstrous Feminine in Jeremiah. The Monstrous Feminine. My study of The Passion of New Eve examines the interconnected relationship. Barbara Creed, The Monstrous-Feminine. Psychoanalysi Monstrous feminine film feminism psychoanalysis pdf barbara creed, the monstrous-feminine. Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd. This PDF is available to Subscribers Only View Article Abstract & Purchase Options For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription.

Understanding Abjection: An Analysis of the Monstrous-Feminine in the Art of Cindy Sherman * Warning: Contains graphic images This is an academic paper. You DO NOT have permission to reprint/reproduce this material. Copyright 2011 Megan Karius. It is that which cannot be assimilated, always within us, forcing an eternal repetition of repulsing and expelling that is doomed to fail. Kristeva attempts to articulate an explanation of the abject in her seminal text, Powers of Horror. The abject is constantly shifting and different for everyone, but Kristeva asserts that without it, we would have no way to understand ourselves as fully formed subjects in the symbolic order (Kristeva 4).

The abject is something so vile that I do not recognize it as a thing (Kristeva 2); I must violently reject it in order to assert myself as ‘I’, and ‘Not that’. Why is it important to understand the abject? I argue that it can help us to understand why we regard some things as disgusting and repulsive. This analysis can be a useful tool for feminist theories of gender, sexuality, and embodiment. Representations of the monstrous-feminine, as conceptualized by Barbara Creed, illustrate the ways in which femininity is feared and abjected in contemporary society. As Jayne Ussher notes, this positioning of women’s bodies as abject has important implications for women’s lived experience (7). Thus, it is useful and necessary for feminists to understand the concepts of abjection and the monstrous-feminine, as well as how they intersect and relate to one another.

Cindy Sherman’s work provides a useful opening into these complex theories. Super net surveillance dvr download to dvd free. It is my assertion that through techniques such as hyperbole and alienation, depictions of the monstrous-feminine in Sherman’s Sex Pictures create a productive space for discussing and understanding Kristeva’s concept of the abject.

Before tackling Kristeva, it will be useful to more fully explain Barbara Creed’s notion of the monstrous-feminine. Creed has traced a direct connection between the monstrous woman and Kristeva’s concept of the abject, noting that, “all human societies have a conception of the monstrous-feminine, of what it is about woman that is shocking, terrifying, horrific, abject” (Creed 1). Creed discusses depictions of the monstrous-feminine in horror film, but her “argument that abjection is central to the recurring image of the ‘monstrous-feminine’ in horror movies is also applicable to the monstrous in Sherman” (Mulvey 148).