Ezgi Lemur

       Before my final paper, I'd like to revisit disgust and consider its relationship to skin. The more I discover about skin, both as part of the body and as a metaphor for border, the more connections I can make between it, touch, and disgust.    By covering the body, skin conceals what is underneath. The body's fluids and tissues lie beneath the skin, nasty and slimy. The idea of a body without a skin covering it is utterly disgusting, and we find relating to it the hardest. Like Steven Connor says, "the skinned body is less of a body even than a skeleton." The flayed skin alone is even more disgusting, as Connor put it into words: "The corpse of a corpse.'' The disgust here, comes from the unimaginability of its 'inside.' Physically, we perceive skin as an outer surface. The inside of the skin is unthinkable, at its most abject. Remembering what Kristeva said, 'Abject is what does not respect borders.' Skin itself is this border.