Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
This video offers a brief introduction to Barbara Creed's book The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and it offers an explanation of the first chapter, "Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection." The majority of the video is spent explaining the basics of the concept of the abject as discussed by Julia Kristeva in her book Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, which forms the basis of Creed's chapter as well as much of her book.
This video offers a brief introduction to Barbara Creed's book The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and it offers an explanation of the first chapter, "Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection." The majority of the video is spent explaining the basics of the concept of the abject as discussed by Julia Kristeva in her book Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, which forms the basis of Creed's chapter as well as much of her book.










