Irritation Book (2018)


             



             



                   



      
                         
                                   

ABOUT

For my graduation dissertation, I started writing a book about the emotion irritation. It began with my personal experience of having misophonia, which means "hatred of sound"—a condition in which specific sounds trigger negative emotions, thoughts, and physical reactions. Personally, I become annoyed by repetitive sounds like clocks ticking, chewing, loud breathing, or pens clicking, just to name a few. This means that feeling annoyed is a big part of my daily life.

That’s why I started my research: Why do I get so annoyed, and what does it mean when this happens? I became fascinated by the emotion irritation and began exploring it more deeply. I created several different works about this emotion and decided to divide it into four categories:

  1. Irritation in function

  2. Irritation in sounds

  3. Irritation in image

  4. Irritation in our daily life

After extensive research and developing a body of work and concepts within these categories, I concluded by assembling everything into one book.