The Seba library treats Aversion in 7 passages, across 5 authors (including Campbell, Joseph, Edinger, Edward F., Hendrik Lorenz).
the learned and noble disciple conceives an aversion for the eye, conceives an aversion for forms, conceives an aversion for eye-consciousness, conceives an aversion for the impressions received by the eye
Campbell's citation of the Fire Sermon presents aversion as the Buddha's prescribed systematic cognitive turn away from all sense-channels, constituting the central soteriological act of interiorized sacrifice.
, Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume II, 1962thesis
The learned and noble disciple conceives an aversion for the eye, conceives an aversion for forms, conceives an aversion for eye-consciousness… This adds up to the same thing as the Western version but it doesn't do it via the agency
Edinger reads the Buddhist doctrine of cultivated aversion as the Eastern equivalent of Western alchemical detachment, positioning it as a cross-traditional method for escaping psychic inflation through sense-withdrawal.
, The Mysterium Lectures: A Journey Through C.G. Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis, 1995thesis
Perceiving this, O monks, the learned and noble disciple conceives an aversion for the eye, conceives an aversion for forms, conceives an aversion for eye-consciousness
Campbell reiterates the Fire Sermon's enumeration of aversion-objects to establish that the mythic-psychological path of liberation requires a comprehensive, sense-by-sense renunciation of attachment.
, The Mythic Image, 1974thesis
Desiring and being averse are opposites; desiring to, and being averse to -ing, are opposites in relation to the same thing. It happens that the soul desires to, and at the same time is averse to -ing. The soul has at least two parts.
Lorenz demonstrates that for Plato, aversion and desire as simultaneous opposites directed at the same object constitute the logical proof of psychic tripartition, making aversion structurally foundational to the theory of inner conflict.
, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle, 2006thesis
what confronts the desire to drink is not a general desire for health or pleasure, but specifically an aversion to drinking. As we shall see, this aversion cannot properly be understood simply as an aversion.
Lorenz argues against the Humean reduction of aversion to a competing desire, insisting that Plato requires aversion to be understood as a distinct motivational state irreducible to its apparent content.
, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle, 2006supporting
Neural communication between the paraventricular nucleus and the DVC is involved in responses that are not only homeostatic but protective and defensive (e. g., nausea and vomiting, conditioned taste aversion, behavioral defense)
Porges grounds aversion in the phylogenetically ancient dorsal vagal complex, showing how conditioned taste aversion instantiates a somatic memory linking environmental stimuli to visceral defensive responses.
, The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation, 2011supporting
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Miller's clinical meta-analysis lists aversion therapy among ranked treatment modalities for alcohol use disorders, situating the concept within behavioral intervention research without theoretical elaboration.
, Mesa Grande: a methodological analysis of clinical trials of treatments for alcohol use disorders, 2002aside