This thinker defined religion as the "phantasmic necessity" of representing ourselves rather than facing what constitutes ourselves.
This thinker defined religion as the "phantasmic necessity" of representing ourselves rather than facing what constitutes ourselves. According to this thinker, the negation of negation in the third stage of Hegel's dialectic is followed by a fourth stage of "negativity," distinct from negation. This thinker claimed that signification can function diagonally to the vertical axis of truth, a concept called "orthocomplementarity." That concept is part of this thinker's argument that while true-or-false logic operates on a "zero-one" binary, (*) poetic logic operates on a "true-and-false" or "zero-two" binary. This theorist coined a term for when the subject casts off a part of itself, rendering it into a non-self object. She argued that Lacan's "mirror stage" is preceded by a pre-symbolic, semiotic stage called the "chora." For 10 points, the concept of "abjection" is explored in Powers of Horror, a work of what Bulgarian-French critical theorist?
This thinker defined religion as the "phantasmic necessity" of representing ourselves rather than facing what constitutes ourselves.
Julia Kristeva