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Abjection
Abjection meaning
A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. | Something cast off; garbage. | The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
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Jackson (2000) argues that Hurston's meditation on abjection, waste, and the construction of class and gender identities among poor whites reflects the eugenics discourses of the 1920s.
They see the send-offs of Cordelia, Fred and other characters as part of a pattern of highly gendered "elaborated abjection" seen in Angel.
This process of separation is known as abjection, whereby the child must reject and move away from the mother in order to enter into the world of language, culture, meaning, and the social.