Disgust: The Theory and History of a Strong Sensation

, by Menninghaus, Winfried; Eiland, Howard; Golb, Joel

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ISBN: 9780791458327 | 0791458326
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Copyright: 10/1/2003

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Examines this forceful emotion from philosophical, literary, and art historical perspectives.

INTRODUCTION: BETWEEN VOMITING AND LAUGHING. BASE LINES OF A PHILOSOPHY OF DISGUST

(24)

Exposition

(4)

Subject Matter and Objectives of the Present Study

(11)

Aurei Kolnai, "Der Ekel" (Disgust)

(4)

Democracy as Source of Disgust: William Ian Miller's The Anatomy of Disgust

(5)

1 THE DISGUST TABOO, AND THE OMNIPRESENCE OF DISGUST IN AESTHETIC THEORY

(26)

The Beautiful as Vomitive

(5)

Aesthetic Infinity as Antivomitive

(2)

"Mixed Sensations" and the Exception of Disgust

(2)

Pleasure and Displeasure

(3)

The "Darkest of all the Senses" and the Collapse of Aesthetic Illusion in Disgust

(7)

Semanticized and "Crude" Disgust

(6)

2 DISGUSTING ZONES AND DISGUSTING TIMES: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IDEALLY BEAUTIFUL BODY

(52)

The Ideal Skin and Disgust at Folds and Wrinkles, Layers of Cartilage and Fat

(3)

Disgusting Depths and the Body's Openings

(4)

Forever young

(2)

The Gaping

Mouth

(4)

Nose-Disgust and the "Greek Profile"

(2)

The "Flattened Ear"

(1)

"Disgusting Breasts" and Ideal "Hills"

(2)

Invisibility, Unseen Nakedness, and "Wetted Garments"

(2)

A Body "Without a Belly"

(1)

The "Spare Behind"

(1)

Excision, Castration, Hermaphroditization: the Phallus in the Field of the Beautiful

(3)

The "Hypergigantic" Sex of the "Colossal Woman"

(3)

Wounds, Dismembered Limbs, Flayed Skin: The Body as a "Disgusting Thing"

(3)

Beautiful Death and Disgusting Decay

(3)

The Ugly Old Lady

(7)

Repression or Differentiation?

(5)

Disgust, Purity, and Impurity in the Aesthetic

(7)

3 "STRONG VITAL SENSATION" AND ORGANON OF PHILOSOPHY: THE JUDGMENT OF DISGUST IN KANT

103

(18)

Disgust and Pleasure

103

(5)

Disgust as a Goal of Education

108

(1)

Smell, Taste, and the "Vital Sensation" of Disgust

109

(3)

Disgust, Laughter, and "Dark Conceptions"

112

(1)

Disgust as an Organon of Intellectual Critique

113

(2)

Disgust as Organon of Practical Action

115

(3)

Disgust, Happiness and Unhappiness, Ennui

118

(3)

4 POETRY OF PUTREFACTION: "BEAUTIFUL DISGUST" AND THE PATHOLOGY OF THE "ROMANTIC"

121

(26)

Classical Disgust and the Basic Alterations of the Aesthetic Field around 1800

121

(2)

The Disgusting as Stimulus-Increase and Recipe of Modern "Shock"-Aesthetics

123

(2)

The License of "Disgusting Impotence" and the Decay of the Negative Principle

125

(3)

Disgusting Souls, Disgusting Times, and the Art of the Disgusting: The "Romantic" Ubiquity of the Once Tabood

128

(3)

Rosenkranz on the Disgusting (1): Putrefaction as an "Inverse Becoming of the Already Dead"

131

(3)

Baudelaire's Poem "Une Charogne"

134

(5)

Rosenkranz on the Disgusting (2): The Return of Indigestibility in the System of Dialectic Appropriation

139

(8)

5 THE "NO" OF DISGUST AND NIETZSCHE'S "TRAGEDY" OF KNOWLEDGE

147

(36)

Plato, Jesus, and Morals as World-Historical Agents of Disgust

149

(2)

"Ressentiment" and Weakness as Catalysts of Modern "Moralizing"-The Disgusting Mixture of Lies and Innocence

151

(3)

"Mollycoddling" as Disgust at one's own Cruelty

154

(2)

The Disgusting Body and Nietzsche's Physiology

156

(2)

"Great Disgust" and Contemporary Literature

158

(2)

Disgust and Cognition

160

(5)

Education for Disgust

165

(2)

Overcoming Disgust

167

(11)

Nietzsche Vetula

178

(5)

6 THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF STINKING: LIBIDO, DISGUST, AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN FREUD

183

(44)

Interpretations of Disgust in Evolutionary Theory before Freud

183

(2)

Freud's Birth

185

(1)

Disgust, Aesthetic Culture, Antie-Aesthetic Libido

186

(7)

The Triumph of Libido: the "Perverse" Overcoming of Disgust

193

(3)

Perverse Father, Servant Girl, and Prostitute

196

(7)

Habemus Vetulam

203

(5)

Disgust and the Choice of Neurosis

208

(5)

Excretion as Prototype of Social Acts, and the Copro-Erotics of Language

213

(5)

"Disgusting Abuses," "Primeval Devil Worship," and the Equation of Analyst and Torturer

218

(2)

Art as Suspension of Disgust and Guiltless "Enjoyment" of the Rejected

220

(2)

Research on Disgust in Empirical Psychology after Freud

222

(5)

7 THE ANGEL OF DISGUST: KAFKA'S POETICS OF "INNOCENT" ENJOYMENT OF "SULPHUROUS" PLEASURES

227

(116)

7.1. Ugly Maidservants, Fat Old Whores, Sexual Disgust, and "Sulphurous" Obesssions

228

(28)

Felice and Other Women with Un-Greek Noses, Skin Defects, and Bad Teeth

228

(6)

"Old Maids"

234

(2)

"I Want Only the Stout Older Ones"

236

(5)

Disgust with Conjugal Sexuality versus Pleasure in Disgusting Sex Outside of Marriage

241

(7)

"Innocence" and "You Must Possess Every Girl!"

248

(1)

"Dirty Fellow," Dancing and Swinging Pigs, Stinking Bitches and Self-Knowledge

249

(5)

Kafka the "Flabby Worm:" The Method of Making "Abominable Peculiarities" Invisible through the Form of Their Disclosure

254

(2)

7.2. The Transformation of the Abject into "Guiltless Enjoyment:" Writing as Devlish-Angelic "Deceiving without Deception"

256

(5)

7.3. Disgusting Sexuality in Kafka's Novels

261

(20)

Amerika, or the Trajectory of Male Innocence in the Realm of "Repellent" Female Practices

261

(11)

Loathsome Power and K.'s "Sexual Etiquette" in The Trial and The Castle

272

(9)

7.4. A Poetics of Eating and Vomiting

281

(17)

Broken Engagements and Disgust with Meat, Spoiled Old Food, and Laxatives

281

(5)

On Hard Sausages and Filthy

Breakfasts: Nutrition and Narration in Kafka's Amerika

286

(5)

Breakfast, Old Woman, and Arrest: The Opening Chapter of The Trial

291

(3)

Orgies of Flesh-Eating and Intoxication with Blood in Kafka's (Hunger) Stories

294

(4)

7.5. Incisions in Flesh and the Knife of Literature

298

(20)

Torture, Truth, and Disembowelled Pigs

307

(3)

"Like a Dog:" K's Execution as the Summa of Kafka's Knife-Poetics

310

(6)

The "Stupidity" of Torture

316

(2)

7.6. The Wound in the Text and the Text as Wound: The Story "A Country Doctor"

318

(14)

7.7. Beer-Drinking Hearse-Drivers and Cheerful Gravediggers

332

(2)

7.8 "Horrible Words" and Kafka's Physiology of Writing

334

(9)

8 HOLY DISGUST (BATAILLE) AND THE STICKY JELLY OF EXISTENCE (SARTRE)

343

(22)

Anti-Aesthetic of the "Formless:" Materialism of the Debased, Pollution of the Beautiful, Self-Mutilation, and the "Bliss" of Anal-Sadistic Ravages

343

(5)

Disgust Prohibitions and their Transgression as Societal "Core" and Stimulating Medium of Erotic Violence

348

(7)

"La Nausée: c'est moi"-Sartre's Elevation of Disgust to the Sole Authentic Experience of Existence

355

(10)

9 ABJECT MOTHER (KRISTEVA), ABJECT ART, AND THE CONVERGENCE OF DISGUST, TRUTH, AND THE REAL

365

(38)

Repression, Repudiation, Abjection

366

(4)

Abject Mother, Symbolic Order, Desire

370

(2)

Abjection, Disgust, and jouissance

372

(6)

Literature as (Perverse) Reclamation of the Abandoned

378

(3)

Rhythm, Laughing Apocalypse, Happy Guilt

381

(4)

Abject Pleasure, Disgust, Truth and the Real

385

(2)

Grand Narratives of the Heterogeneous

387

(2)

AIDS, Disgust, and Affirmative Abjection: On the Political Appropriation of Kristeva

389

(4)

The Academic Career of the "Abject"

393

(2)

Abject Art

395

(8)

NOTES

403

(50)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

453

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