Prozac is a mystifed self rather than a mystical self. The drug offers a small island in the abyss; a bit of land in teh deep chasm into which ones soul is disappearing. Slowly this bit of land grows until the abyss is covered over---covered over or filled in? what happens to the abyss? Is it simply hidden behind a facade? Can this land bult with drugs be real? If so, what is the nature of its reality" Alice Bullard (147)

Another aspect of the disgusting that Miller contempaltes has to do with the partibility of the human body. The body can be pulled apart. Drawn and quatered. Loosened by decay. Few things are digusting in ones mouth than a human hair, because it signifes this bodily disintergration. Miller cites a study in which toddlers were observed placing all manner of unilely objects in their mouths; they were happy to eat poo and paint and other odds and ends, but showed aversion to a stringle strand of hair. On this point, Miller challenges FReud about his analysis of "castration fear" It isn't just the penis men fear losing, Miller argues, but also their fingers and toes. A classic anxiety dream features tehe crumbling of one's teeth. We fear falling apart (105)

()about William Miller's Anataomy of Disgust)

Adults with panic disorder and agoraphobia are governed mostly by the apprehension of the panic attack itself, that they will panic without warning, and won't be able to cope. They cannot predict it; that is what haunts them and keeps them out of resturats and subways. "Fear came upon me" Henry James Sr wrote in a letter to his son William, and "the thing had not lasted ten seconds before I felt myself a wreck, that is, reduced from a state of firm vigorous, joyful, manhood to one of almost help,less infancy. So Sudden and extreme is this expereince that it is like being punched in the face...223

All qotes from A Breif History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine) by PAtricia PEarson.