As advised I have just read Natalie Fife's dissertation - which may I say is very well written and formative.
I stole some of her research - naturally.
"The body is the earth, territory of violent metamorphosis and substitution. We are all in peril of becoming thing. The grotesque gap between our humanity and this thing - the body killed, damaged, wounded is held open by metaphors." (Kutzbach & Mueller, 2007 pg 89)
"The monsterous feminine is a fragmentation of disjointed oppression and feminine self - loathing associated with the female body" (Kristeva, 1982)
"the 'other' as abjection, expelling what we find grotesque, violently through the body. The understanding of 'self' is associated with the ability to separate 'I' from the 'other' and in order to realise true sense of 'self' the borders between 'I' and 'other' must be tested" (Kristeva, 1818)
"Is society ready for an image of the idealised human?" (Bann 1994 & Nietsche & Mencken 2008)
"Abjection challenges the borders of selfhood what we find grotesque defining what is the 'real' other. The abject does not respect the 'self' no the 'other'; it uses the other in order to experiment and test interpretations of the grotesque and the disgusting in order to create distinctive borders between the two." (Kristeva, 1982)
"Disruptive material forces that is operative in the subject and in culture [...] There is a fundamental inherent disruption to abject and that points beyond cultural abjections. Abjects drain the life out of organic systems. Foul things tend to be abject for instance because of its foulness, an abundance of life is rotting from within." (Kutzback & Mueller 2007 pg 11)
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