ABSTRACT
Disgust is an expression of repulsion, and like fear is an aversion, but here with the thought of rejection of the offending object, rather than with that of escape from it. Primitively, true to the etymology of the word itself, it is associated almost entirely with food, and it is still accompanied today, though now highly modified and extended intellectually, with this same gastric relation. We express nausea and disgust by the same facial expression, and our language still records the connection. That which disgusts us “makes us sick,” and inelegant man still spits on the ground to show his lack of love for his boss.
