Happily, this may have kept people away from the movie -- a preview of coming repulsions, you might say.
If you're at all repulsed by "Repulsion," then you're clearly squeamish around blood.
Dr. Rachel Herz, a specialist on the psychology of smell and author of the books That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion and Why You Eat What You Eat, suggests there's some learned instinct at play, too.
That would knock the problem of stiction firmly on the head and, according to Dr Capasso, would open up the possibility of making things like frictionless ball-bearings.According to calculations made several decades ago by Evgeny Lifshitz, a Russian physicist, Casimir repulsion should be possible but you have to replace the vacuum with a fluid.
The Repulsion Gel acts like rubber, bouncing you up and away in the direction you were heading.
If I can overcome my repulsion, he seems to say, then you can, too.
Dickens had this wonderful phrase, "the attraction of repulsion," meaning that something is so awful you can't stop watching.
Perhaps I should give you the benefit of the doubt and say that it is possible, after all that promiscuous sex, that you still haven't found a female good enough for you and that when you finally do the narcissism and feelings of repulsion will evaporate.
Nor do I think you understand the self-loathing and repulsion a woman in this circumstance experiences.
She talked about her repulsion at his attempt to romanticize their relationship, "You begin to love your captor, and I felt great love for my father.
Fascination and repulsion are woven throughout the travelogs: "At the same time you envy America for its freedom, you pity her for the price she pays for this freedom," wrote Karima Kamal, a doctoral student at the University of Chicago in the late 1970s.
