I learnt a new word today, abjection. From what I understand, from a sociological point, abjection must be something that is abhorred and the mere sight of it is repulsive. We show abjection to something that we have tried to keep away and do not want to be seen with. In the same way, abject poverty is put in the same kettle of fish. Everyone want to be high heeled. Hence, we show our repulsiveness to being poor by putting it in the abject category. We show abjection at people embroiled in the quagmire we once were, as if they are stuck in a time capsule that you somehow managed to escape. You want to erase all traces of you bring in the same boat. You abhor the boat people who you think would tarnish the sanitised world that you and your fellow countrymen have carved for yourselves. We all clamour to be free from our unsavoury past. We go to great lengths to forget our old path which were paved with figments of our tarnished or unpleasant past. We want to unchain the sha...
It is all Mimesis