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 +[[Image:Index Librorum Prohibitorum.jpg|thumb|200px|left|This page '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is part of the [[mores]] series.
 +<small><br>Illustration: ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'' ("[[banned books|List of Prohibited Books]]") of the [[Catholic Church]].</small>]]
 +[[Image:Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe]]'' (1887) by [[Eugène Bataille]]]]
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 +'''Transgressive''' means involving '''transgression'''; that passes beyond some limit; [[sinful]]; going [[beyond]] generally [[accept]]ed [[boundaries]]; violating usual practice, [[subversive]].
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-'''Transgressive''' may mean:+'''Transgressive''' and '''transgression''' may refer to:
 +* a legal transgression, a [[crime]]
 +* a social transgression, violating a [[Norm (sociology)|norm]]; elements of moral and normative transgression are [[drugs]], [[sex]] and [[violence]]
*[[Transgressive art]], a name given art forms which transgress. *[[Transgressive art]], a name given art forms which transgress.
-*[[Transgressional fiction]], a modern style in literature.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] +*[[Transgressional fiction]], a modern style in literature.
 +*a concept in [[Georges Bataille|Bataillean]] and [[Mikhail Bakhtin|Bakhtinian]] philosophy. Georges Bataille was one of the prime theorists of transgression. He emphasized the [[irrational]] in opposition to the rational, the erotic as opposed to morality, celebration of [[excess]] as opposed to restraint, transgression as opposed to conformity.
 +==Etymology==
 +From ''[[trans]]'' (“across, beyond”) + ''[[gradior]]'' (“walk; advance”).
 +== Further reading ==
 +*''[[Rabelais and His World]]'' (1965) by Mikhail Bakhtin
 +== See also ==
 +<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">
 +*[[Abjection]]
 +*[[Carnivalesque]]
 +*[[Controversial]]
 +*[[Exaggeration]]
 +*[[Excess]]
 +*[[Grotesque]]
 +*[[Hierarchies]]
 +*[[Irrational]]
 +*[[Non-mainstream]]
 +*[[Obscene]]
 +*[[Offensive]]
 +*[[Radical]]
 +*[[Revolutionary]]
 +*[[Scandal]]
 +*[[Subversion]]
 +*[[Taboo]]
 +</div>
 +{{GFDL}}
[[Category:Non-mainstream]] [[Category:Non-mainstream]]

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Transgressive means involving transgression; that passes beyond some limit; sinful; going beyond generally accepted boundaries; violating usual practice, subversive.


Transgressive and transgression may refer to:

  • a legal transgression, a crime
  • a social transgression, violating a norm; elements of moral and normative transgression are drugs, sex and violence
  • Transgressive art, a name given art forms which transgress.
  • Transgressional fiction, a modern style in literature.
  • a concept in Bataillean and Bakhtinian philosophy. Georges Bataille was one of the prime theorists of transgression. He emphasized the irrational in opposition to the rational, the erotic as opposed to morality, celebration of excess as opposed to restraint, transgression as opposed to conformity.

Etymology

From trans (“across, beyond”) + gradior (“walk; advance”).

Further reading

See also




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