Disgust
Overthink
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Christeva's Thesis of the Abject
Most of the things that we find disgusting tend to be associated with the female body and the mother, right? So think about anything that reminds us of our animality because women have historically been associated with animality. And this is definitely why Christeva places so much emphasis on things like our disgust at birth. Anything having to do with bodily fluids like menstrual blood, the milk of the breast,. The opposite of that Western ideal of subjectivity that has always been masculine.
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