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This essay explores and examines disgust in five literary figures and books based on scent, bodyfluids and abjection. Together with Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection and Sara Ahmed's "The Performativity of Disgust" in The Cultural Politics of Emotion, I analyze these books, and my position as a researchsubject. The questions I ask are: What does disgust mean? How do the subject's boundaries shift when things penetrate the body? How are scents, body fluids and disgust expressed in relation to power and the female body? And what does it mean that I stick my reading experiences on the texts I read? The analysis begins in Mare Kandre's novel Aliide, Aliide and how gaze, power and girlhood are made, as well as how abjection takes place in the intake of milk and larvae. Body in body and body against body are analyzed based on Aliide's disgust in the novel. I discuss how something growing inside is experienced as disgusting and frightening and connect it to the pregnant body and the fetus as abjection. In the second chapter of the analyze, it is Parfymen: berättelsen om en mördare by Patrick Süskind that focuses on the scent of the female body that Grenouille, the main character tries to extract and master. The gaze on the female body and the extraction of fragrance is in focus here and in Nekrofilen by Gabrielle Wittkop, Lucien's desire for the dead body is examined. The body fluids, such as the vomit that the bodies excrete can be read as limits to life and death. In the third and final analysis section, I read these books with affect. I reconnect to my introduction where Ulf Lundell's poems made me feel disgusted. I use Ahmed's concept of performativity to discuss how cannibalism - reading - eating body fluids are connected, and how writing about disgust, is a form om vomiting. I examine my own writing subject and what an affective reading does to literary studies and the research position. In conclusion, I discuss how the universal and the subjective making of disgust effect research.

Var fjärde patient som genomgår cytostatikabehandling (cellgiftsbehandling) upplever illamående och kräkningar av olika grad, i fortsättningen kallat N/V, Nausea and Vomiting. Många patienter upplever att N/V är det mest plågsamma och försvagande med cancersjukdomen under pågående behandling. Behandling av N/V ges i förebyggande syfte, men innebär inte ett garanterat skydd för alla patienter. Komplementära metoder används både för behandling och i förebyggande syfte av N/V. Rädsla för N/V innebär att många patienter väljer att avstå eller avbryter sin cytostatikabehandling i förtid. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva hur komplementära metoder kan lindra cytostatikaframkallat N/V. Metod: Studien var en litteraturstudie där elva vetenskapliga artiklar sammanställdes och analyserades. Resultat: Efter sammanställningen av resultaten sorterades metoderna in i olika kategorier: Stimuli, Kost och Aktivitet. Diskussion: Det finns komplementära metoder som lindrar N/V vid cytostatikabehandling. En kombination av olika komplementära metoder kan förebygga, reducera och/eller lindra cytostatikaframkallat N/V. Däremot syntes inte alltid effekten förrän några dagar efter påbörjad cytostatikabehandling. Oro inför cytostatikabehandling är förknippat med graden och förekomst av N/V och utveckling av betingat N/V. Sjuksköterskans arbete utförs utifrån forskningsbaserad kunskap och beprövad erfarenhet. Det är önskvärt med mer forskning kring komplementära metoder vid cytostatikaframkallat N/V, för att kunna erbjuda varje enskild patient den optimala behandlingen., Every fourth patient experience nausea and vomiting (N/V) of varying degrees during chemotherapy treatment and a lot of patients feel it is the most painful and debilitating with cancer during treatment. Treatment of N/V is given as prevention and does not guarantee full protection for each patient. Complementary methods are used for both treatment and prevention of N/V. In fear of N/V, a lot of patients choose not to have chemotherapy or discontinue their chemotherapy treatment prematurely. Aim: The aim was to describe how complementary methods can relieve chemotherapy-induced N/V. Method: The study was a literature review and eleven scientific articles were analysed and compiled. Result: After compiling the results, the complementary methods could be divided into different categories; Stimuli, Diet and Activity. Discussion: There are complementary methods that relieve N/V during chemotherapy treatment. A combination of different complementary methods can prevent, reduce and/or relieve chemotherapy-induced N/V. However, the effect was not noticeable until a few days after initiation of chemotherapy. Anxiety before chemotherapy is associated with the degree and the presence of N/V and development of anticipatory N/V. Since nurses work must be performed after research-based- and experienced knowledge more research is needed to give strength to the complementary methods.