Answer A Question No One Asked

Answer Before You Ask

Come Back Wrong

Dissolve On Contact

Explain Too Much

Need You Too Much

Nod Before They Finish

Poison Slowly

Ring Like Chlorine

Ring Like Dust

Ring Like Static

Ring Like Summer

Ring Like Vinegar

Smell Like Ash

Smell Like Copper

Smell Like Metal

Smell Like Paper

Smell Like Rain That Never Falls

Smell Like Smoke

Smell Like Wood

Spoil In The Microwave

Spread Unnoticed

Stick Like Copper

Stick Like Silence

Stick Like Summer

Taste Like Copper

Taste Like Lint

Taste Like Paper

Taste Like Sugar

Taste Like Winter

Weigh Like Dust

Weigh Like Wine

Weigh Like Winter

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is a reaction formation designed to keep us from indulging desires our civilization has sought to repress. We are drawn to what disgusts because it is a cover for precisely what most attracts.

For Freud, disgust is a 'reaction formation' designed to keep us from indulging desires our civilization has sought to repress. We are drawn to what disgusts because it is a cover for precisely what most attracts. Freud points out that children are not in the least disgusted by feces... to the contrary, they're fascinated by them. But they learn to be disgusted as part of their socialization. Disgust thus operates as a kind of deeply internalized taboo against desires civilization needs to repress.

is an emotion which rests on nothing but imagination.

disgust is for Kant an emotion 'which rests on nothing but imagination' (KU 5:312).

is the most radical departure from the enlightenment ideal of 'the gentle sex'.

For Kant, disgust is the most radical departure from the Enlightenment ideal of 'das schöne Geschlecht': 'Dem Schönen ist nichts so sehr entgegengesetzt als der Ekel [. . . ]. Daher kann [. . . ] einem Frauenzimmer [kein Schimpf empfindlicher sein] . . .

is unrepresentable and unnamable in its singularity.

Accordingly, for Derrida disgust is 'unrepresentable' and 'unnamable in its singularity' (22), since it deconstructs the entire 'logocentric system' (23, 25), every 'hierarchizing authority' (25), and every 'economy': 'This impossibility cannot be said to be some thing' (25).

is merely detours of the disgust with ourselves.

Our disgusts' ' Detours of the disgust with ourselves.

is always originally disgust at touching.

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

Disgust and allergy are ailments of all but the truly poor.

is a sort of synthesis which attaches to the total form of objects, and which must diminish and disappear as scientific analysis separates into facts what, as a whole, is so repugnant.

Disgust Disgust is a sort of synthesis which attaches to the total form of objects, and which must diminish and disappear as scientific analysis Oish 2 95 Dissimulation separates into facts what, as a whole, is so repugnant.

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