Julia Kristeva

JULIA KRISTEVA

Genealogical position: French theory, psychoanalysis and queer theory.

Conceptual connection supplied for this timeline:

Kristeva → abjection and contamination of order.

Cross-genealogy relation:

Kristeva ↔ physical practice: abjection and the leaking/contorting body.

Her theory of abjection — the body that leaks, contorts, empties itself, 'not representing, but exuding' — supplies the definition of 'subtext' in the Makishi entry as an aesthetic modality rather than hidden content: 'That which cannot be rejected or assimilated, which haunts the borders of the self.' Link directly to the Body as instrument/knowledge axis (trajectory chapter) and to Zacharopoulou's corporeal material.