“OTHER-NESS” IN SEX

Evening Star, Issue 19274, 12 June 1926, Page 18

“OTHER-NESS” IN SEX

HOW THE TWO HALVES OF THE FACE DIFFER Students of the science of physiognomy have been deeply stirred in Berlin by a totally new theory propounded at a meeting of the Lavater Society bv Dr Wilhelm Fliess. A number of photographs were shown with half tho lace darkened. In practically every case the members of the audience pronounced tho photograph to bo that of a man when the left half of a woman’s face was shown, and, in tho case of the loft side of a man’s face, to be that of a woman. This occasionally remarkable difference in the two sides of a person’s face, which every photographer notices and of which film actors are acutely aware. Dr Fliess explains _by the presence of feminine elements in every man, while fundamental male characteristics are to be met with in every female. These “ other-sex ” attributes have a habit of coming out more strongly on the left than on the right side. The greater the preponderance of these elements in S individual, the _ greater is the srence between this character and the normal type of the same sex. This is one explanation of the socalled “ artistic temperament ”; photofraphs showing very wide differences etween the two sides of a face were in all cases those of persons of peculiarly distinctive gifts in one form or other. That this “ other-ness ” is not confined to human beings alone was sufficiently demonstrated liy various leaves being folded down the middle: the two halves invariably displayed slight differences. —‘ Observer”