McCarthy, 258: "For Kristeva, that which is abjected, thrown away, purged or let drop as waste presents, to the body that has ejected it, 'one of those violent, dark revolts of being,' speaks of an order 'beyond the scope of the possible, the tolerable, the thinkable' that 'cannot be assimilated.' The abject doesn't simply provide an 'alternative' point of psychological identification; rather it 'draws [one] towards a place where meaning collapses,' where 'consciousness has not assumed its rights and transformed into signifiers those fluid demarcations where an 'I' that is taking shape is ceaselessly straying'"