Alien: Abjection and the Dark Feminine
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The Monsters Feminine by Barbara Crete
Our Source, The Monsters Feminine by Barbara Crete summarizes and extrapolates on the idea of objection in storytelling, specifically horror. Much quotation is made of Julia Kristiva's influential 1980 essay, Powers of Horror, which popularized this terminology as a key to exploring Freudian ideas of libido. So we've already discussed that the name of the AI computer aboard the Nostromo is called Mother. And she does control their life support and all their food. Like she dispenses their food. Yeah, just the things that the things that can't be dealt with. If you were to encounter something so terrifying, it was surreal. You could call that abject terror. Or an
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