Abject as a protection
It’s biological expression is one of nausea and disgust, anxiety and spasms. It protects us from what we loathe. We spit ourselves out. Food loathing is perhaps the best example of the abject. Jellied eels are a common delicacy in some London pubs, just watching others scoff and swallow those slimy, gross eels with a pint of lager makes me wretch and purge. When I can’t hide my repulsion from others, they seek to proffer the loathed food and I refuse. ‘I’ do not want to listen.’I’ refuse to assimilate it. ‘I’ expell it.
To each ego it’s object, to each superego, it’s abject.
A corpse is another way of understanding abjection, a corpse shows you the boundary of life itself, what we push aside in order to live.
This is negation as necessity.
