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The abject is not therefore an intrinsic quality of a thing, a being, or a state of affairs. Thus human faeces are more disgusting to us than dog faeces, despite the fact that there is no real difference between them.
Our own bodily fluids are for the most part loathsome to us, but the intensity of that loathing owes precisely to the fact that they come from us. As such, it is simultaneously outside or beyond the subject and inside and of the subject. Belonging to the realm of the psychic, the abject is the excessive dimension of either a subject or an object that cannot be assimilated. That which disturbs the self, by provoking either disgust, fear, loathing or repulsion.
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