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Disgust - The Gatekeeper Emotion (Hardcover, New)
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Susan Miller, author of two foundational works on shame ("The Shame
Experience" [TAP, 1985/1993pbk]; "Shame in Context" [TAP, 1996]),
now turns to disgust, an intriguing emotion that has received
little attention in the professional literature. For Miller, the
psychological study of disgust revolves around boundary issues: We
tend to feel disgusted about things (from bodily processes to
decaying organic matter to ethnic attributes of "foreign" people)
that lie on the border between our sense of self and nonself or
between our sense of "good self" and "bad self." Miller's clinical
and everyday examples of disgust lead her to explore the
developmental grounding of the capacity to disgust, and this topic
opens to consideration of the relation of the various sensory
modalities to disgust reactions. Why, Miller asks, do we see
disgusting images and smell disgusting smells but not hear
disgusting sounds? And further, what makes sensory impressions or
objects "disgusting" to certain people but not to others? Why do
the images and smells of disease so frequently elicit disgust? And
what is the relation of disgust to sex, procreation, and human
intimacy?
Laced with developmental insights and vivid illustrations of
disgust-related syndromes, "Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion"
incorporates cultural analysis that links disgust to images of
illness and health, to family life, to group identity, and to
artistic and scientific creativity. For Miller, the central disgust
dialectic - the self's need to safeguard itself against noxious
intrusions from without and simultaneously to nourish itself
through contact with "otherness" - obtains whether the discourse
concerns nature, nations, or noses. Withher typically graceful and
gracious prose, Miller puts disgust on the psychological map and
thereby adds a chapter to our understanding of the role of emotion
in therapy and in everyday life.
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