Dissonance, Expulsion, Appropriation

Closely related to Repulsion and Attraction are Expulsion and Appropriation, respectively.  Included in the latter pair is a distinction lacking in the former--inner vs. outer, i. e. private vs. public.  Accordingly, musical Dissonance is more than an arrangement of given sounds--each sound is produced by a player who is simultaneously exerting outward-directed energy and absorbing the output of the other players.  Thus, what musical Dissonance expresses is a more fundamental compresence--of opaque privacies and shared publicity.  But, that compresence is not peculiar to musical contexts; rather, it constitutes every social setting.