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  • Essay / The Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva: An Essay on Abjection '

    Ledgard to create skin that has the capacity to resist pain. He could try to give his wife the comfort she couldn't have and repair the damage caused by the burn from the accident she suffered. As the film progresses, we see that Dr. Ledgard tries to nurture this young woman's femininity despite Vera's refusal to adapt. her new feminine identity. In my opinion, this action can be explained by two reasons. The first reason is that Dr. Ledgard is trying to make the rapist into a full woman and the second reason, he wants revenge and punishment for sexually abusing his daughter. Out of nothing, Dr. Ledgard creates his wife. Vera had the chance to see herself in a mirror (Figure 5). From my point of view, it passes to the mirror stage as proposed by Lacan, he says that human infants go through a stage in which an external image of the body (reflected in a mirror, or represented to the infant through the intermediary of the mother or primary caregiver) produces a psychological response that gives rise to the mental representation of an ā€œIā€ (Zurn, 1988). However, she could not easily accept her body and her new female identity.