Drawing on Hilary Mantel's evocation of the frozen body monarch as an object to be gazed upon and consumed, this article revisits three cinematic Shakespearean films in order demonstrate ways which kings are made abject. By applying Laura Mulvey's language scopophilia instances Ran (Kurosawa, 1985), King Lear (Brook, 1971), Macbeth (Kurzel, 2015) where framed still, sees royal bodies at mercy c...

In Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva outlines her theory of abjection as a simultaneous fascination and horror stemming from sensorial reminders of the subject's primal, psychological relation to the mother. In this essay, I show how these psychological perspectives can potentially result in acts of physical violence, which I call the "abject response." Applied to literatu...

Despite the number of papers that suggest the benefit of optimization of location of left ventricular leads, every implanter knows the difficulty in going to an alternate lead position and location. Similarly, often, microdisplacement of the left ventricular (LV) lead post implant, can change grand success into abject failure forcing the electrophysiologist to sometimes actually turn off left v...

India is home to 472 million children under the age of 0-18 years, comprising 39% of the country’s total population. Out of the 128.5 million children residing in urban areas, close to 7.8 million children under the age of 0-6 years still live in abject poverty and poor conditions in informal settlements, making it imperative that we plan and build sustainable and inclusive cities from their pe...

In the Spill o Llibre de les dones, the 15th century writer and physician from Valencia, Jaume Roig, uses the motif of pilgrimage to attack earthly women, particularly women healers. Roig undermines the salutary function of medieval pilgrimage in order to expose worldly women in their effort to harm male pilgrims. Since men cannot rely on earthly women, they must seek a healing encounter with t...

This essay describes and reflects on the central river of a small post-industrial city in Maine (USA), interweaving author’s experience place with voices three local poets, as way considering how its have been represented—as pastoral, abject, beautiful, hybrid.

This article engages with medical practice to develop a philosophically informed understanding of epistemic engagement in medicine, and object relations more broadly. I take my point departure the clinical encounter draw on French psychoanalytical theory expand taxonomy already proposed by Karin Knorr-Cetina. In so doing, argue for addition an abject-type relation; that is, objects transgress f...