THE AVERSION

🧐 An encounter that shouldn’t go any further: I have to speak to someone with whom I recently had a serious argument

📖 Efference of a global, systemic rejection. An energetic barrier that prevents both the flow of information and physical proximity: the entire body positions itself in such a way as to minimise the surface area exposed to attack or contact. This serves to avoid interaction whilst maintaining autonomy: ‘I do not want any contact. I reject your offer, you as a person, or this topic. I am shutting myself off to keep my energy to myself.’ To observers, this attitude comes across as frosty, arrogant or dismissive. A stop signal that nips any form of intimacy or cooperation in the bud. It reveals an ego that has withdrawn from shared interaction and now presents only its outer defences.

🤔 The face is turned away in a lasting manner; the remaining, imperfect turn of the face transmits inhospitality

😶 You make eye contact with the other person’s side whilst he is seeking a connection

🤓 The experience becomes all the more profound the more the face turns to one side; the decisive factor is the face’s remaining, imperfect orientation

😎 The atmosphere is tense or subdued

⛈️ The peripeteia is brought to a conclusion in the dénouement, whilst a new one is set in motion