Might it be displaced by a sort of repulsion?
"That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion," by Rachel Herz.
The director of "Repulsion," "Rosemary's Baby," and "Macbeth" long ago put away his knives.
Jaroussky himself is well aware of what he describes as its "element of repulsion".
THAT'S DISGUSTING: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, by Rachel Herz (Norton, $26.95).
Dickens had this wonderful phrase, "the attraction of repulsion," meaning that something is so awful you can't stop watching.
"I think the most powerful emotion is the one that teeters on the edge of repulsion and intrigue".
Rachel Herz is the author of the new book That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, and teaches at Brown University.
In his first American film, Mr. Polanksi draws on the subjective camerawork of his British thriller "Repulsion" to create a powerful sense of isolation and mistrust; as Pauline Kael helpfully pointed out, "it's probably more fun for women who are past their childbearing years".
The pointed rejection of Ms. Mitchell's character by her female friends and her tragically heightened isolation, though, also led pundits to liken the film's slowly compounding sense of doom to that of classic Roman Polanski squirmfests like "Repulsion" and "Rosemary's Baby".
