Aku dalam Kehinaanku!: Menafsir Kehinaan Menurut Julia Kristeva

Abstract

Abjection normally is understood as the gross taste. However, whether such humiliation is also understood when placed in the frame of philosophy? Julia Kristeva states abjection with regard to aesthetics in art and literature through poetry catharsis. That is through abjection, people are invited to immerse themselves further in selfhood. The key phrase is trying held by the author in this article outlines. The author tries to offer an alternative that has been wrapped Kristeva debasement in the language of the interface between semiotics and symbolism.

Keywords

• abjection
• aesthetics
• philosophy
• semiotics
• symbolism