Abjection and the History of Kindness

In abjection, the subject maintains the boundaries of their identity and then strengthens their differentiation with others.

Robertus Robet

March 28, 2025

IN the beginning, humans are introduced to kindness through the female body. The introduction of kindness begins with a paradoxical event when women determine the boundary between self and non-self, when a child is separated from the mother’s body.

Jacques Lacan said that the subject is always constituted through the act of separation. That is, the subject only truly becomes a subject when the child is rejected and released from its u

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