In this, the abject is unlike the object, which stabilizes the subject in a reciprocal relationship of otherness.
Fabulous wealth and abject gloom, though apparently contradictory, were the two effects.
By lunchtime on the following day, everything - including its abject side, the expulsion of the worthless, consumed commodity - has disappeared from view.
Their financial situation suggests that they had started to move out of abject poverty.
In this sense even abject failure can be turned to economic, political, and of course academic benefit.
With the abject failure of its longstanding policy of exemplary libel prosecutions, the government simply gave up trying to control language.
The subject is identified both with what it repudiates and what is repudiated: not subject but abject.
The abject "expression" alerts readers to other categories of persons who regarded themselves as enslaved.
