Tag: taboo

The model of bloodthirsty feelings is the vampire, an undead creature that is motivated by an irresistible desire to drink human blood.

When we accept the fantasy that only monstrous people feel hate, we turn a blind eye to the growth of monstrosity within ourselves.

The consistent admonitions against morbid feelings hint at a taboo against focusing on the negative aspects of life… especially death.

Pretending that death isn’t something to be bothered about is obviously unrealistic, but there’s no clinical term to describe the psychopathology of people who deny the reality of death.

The cursing students were also able to keep their hands in the cold water for an average of 40 percent longer than the others.

Much of emotion grapples with the transgression of boundaries, the breaking of taboos. Among the most consistent sources of this conflict is soil. We long to feel grounded, the sense of being connected… more emotion Dirty