Abject a. : Cast down; low-lying.

Abject a. : Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.

Abject a. : To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

Abject n. : A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.

Example:
What role(s) does the Abject play in representations of the body?

Taxonomy
abject, Abjection, Art, performances, corpse, critical theory, horror, alien, free encyclopedia, New York, society, fascination, 1990's, cast, the Whitney Museum, Barbara Creed, female roles, degradation.

Defination from the web:
abject exists in between the concept of an object and the concept of the subject, something alive yet not. ... The abject also began to influence the work of a number of mainstream artists including Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Paul McCarthy, Gilbert ...