"I EXPEL MYSELF, I spit myself out, I abject myself," writes Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror, her 1980 classic of psychoanalytic criticism. In Mire Lee's morbid environments, fluids surge, orifices open, and pipes leak, though we are never sure what, or who, comes out of them.
"Lee's governing insight is the intuition that we relate, immediately, to these ugly half-forms. Like them, we identify with the burdens we carry; like them, we are vulnerable organs, jostling through a convulsing social body."
[
add
]
[
|
|
...
]