Abjection in Post Modern Art as a Result of Post Traumatic Culture

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to identify the elements that allow us to build a theoretical, art historical and critical view from the Holocaust to the matter of abjection. If the concept of abjection has existed during the twentieth century, not only in art history, but also in aesthetics or semiotics, as a base for overcoming symbolic, psychic and cultural limitations in order to transgress or perturb the individual and collective identity system, in abjection art work these questions are presented in extremely original images. The purpose of the essay is to try to demonstrate, from a theoretical perspective, following Julia Kristeva and her book Pouvoirs de l’horreur, that the discussion is built on concepts or poetics connected to abjection. Using these considerations to approach the question, it will be interesting to identify the presence of abject images.