Disgust
Recoil from contamination, wrongness, or a boundary crossed in the body or moral sense.
36 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus.
Study and magazine
Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.
No published passage–image pairings for this emotion yet. The passage list below still reflects how the corpus names this feeling in text.
Part of a cluster
Disgust sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Disgustfrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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36 tagged passages
- DV-RC-011From Delta of Venus (1977)
They were given a large bed for themselves, and later, when they were still talking of their voyage and of meeting their father again, he came into the room to bid them goodnight. He stretched out at their side and kiss…
- TOL-RC-775From The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy (selected nonfiction) (2016)
Apart from the fact that such men are surrounded from earliest childhood to the grave by the most insensate luxury and an atmosphere of falsehood and flattery which always accompanies them, their whole education and all…
- HCCC-RC-1738From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Athanasius met the theological objections of the Arians with overwhelming dialectical skill, and exposed the internal contradictions and philosophical absurdities of their positions. Arianism teaches two gods, an uncrea…
- HCCC-RC-3215From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
The twentieth Jubilee was celebrated in 1900, under Leo XIII.14 Leo extended the offered benefits to those who had the will and not the ability to make the journey to Rome. For the offerings accruing from the Jubilee an…
- TJSD-RC-243From Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2013)
by immigration laws and by the racial segregation of legal work, and for whom access to the political space has been permanently blocked. In reality, male and female domes- tic workers occupy positions resembling those …
- CHR5-RC-054From Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Part 5 (451 – 1800) (2009)
horrible deaths in quick succession for a series of Byzantine emperors, including the little-regarded Alexios, the trashing of the Christian world’s wealthiest and most cultured city – in short, countless incentives for…
- BSES-RC-296From The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory (2008)
Evil and the Theological Turn Yet, in the absence of shared vocabulary we need to understand extreme forms of human suffering in the modern world, and to grasp the enormity of modern suffering we are forced to use a the…
- CTG-RC-247From The Canterbury Tales (2009)
If my son and daughter are killed - well, I will never grieve and never complain. I accept your commandments as my lord and master. I have had no part in my two children - except sickness and pain and sorrow. ‘You are o…
- SHF-RC-907From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
With this was connected the unnatural and monstrous custom of exposing poor, sickly, and deformed children to a cruel death, or in many cases to a life of slavery and infamy-a custom expressly approved, for the public i…
- HCCC-RC-2760From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
The savagery of the Christian soldiery, their unscrupulous treatment of property, and the bitter rancors in the Crusading camps were a disgraceful spectacle which could have but one effect upon the peoples of the East. …
- LTD-RC-257From Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity (2024)
If even marital sex was by its nature impure, the ritual purity or impurity of a priest was a threat to his proper celebration of the Mass. Latin theologians emphasized with increasing precision that in this liturgical …
- HS1-RC-002From The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (1976)
But twilight soon fell upon this bright day, followed by the monotonous nights of the Victorian bourgeoisie. Sexuality was carefully confined; it moved into the home. The conjugal family took custody of it and absorbed …
- LTAH-RC-140From Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity (2024)
The answer may be found in texts incorporated in the huge collection of centuries of Roman law undertaken during Justinian’s long reign: the Corpus juris civilis, which shaped the future of Byzantine law and was to have…
- WT4Y-RC-279From White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (2016)
Charlotte, North Carolina, PTL (“Praise the Lord/Pass the Love”) Television Network that was estimated to reach thirteen million homes; they also opened the highly profitable twenty-three-hundred-acre Heritage USA Chris…
- HCC-RC-2862From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
A heretic, that is, one who dissented from the dogmatic belief of the Catholic Church, was regarded as worse than a Saracen and worse than a person of depraved morals. In a sermon, issued by Werner of St. Blasius about …
- GCSH-RC-234From Going Clear (2013)
“Get their names and phone numbers.” Miscavige then assigned Greg Wilhere and Tommy Davis to audition all the young actresses who were in Scientology—about a hundred, according to Marc Headley, who observed some of the …