Disgust (n.) 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.
Disgust (n.) can vanish from a dream of faeces when megalomania arrives to share the material: the stream of urine that washes everything clean is Hercules in the Augean stables.
Disgust (n.) is absent at first and emerges in childhood — the plainest sign that pleasure can be turned into unpleasure.
Disgust (n.) at excrement is social: man scarcely minds the smell of his own, only that of other people's.
Disgust (n.) is no scientific argument: "it does not prevent things from existing," as Charcot said, and rejecting a truth because it is unpleasant is repeating the dream-work rather than understanding it.
Disgust (n.) at the skin on milk may be the weaned child's memory of the breast once ardently desired.
Disgust (n.) begins as a reaction to the smell and sight of excrement and enters sexual life because the genitals recall the excretory functions.