by the right smell, the smell of vitality and this (the James Lange cycle) acts as the most effective autosuggestion. By smelling right to yourself you have the self-assurance that makes others feel you are the hound that has found the scent. "Flair", the favorite French word for insight, means, after all, the gift of being able to smell and appreciate odor especially the rich and informative variety of the constantly modulating human odors.

The so-called normal man is presently tending to recover his proper fashion and cosmetic rights and in so doing is warming up the Puritan iceage retreat. In this, the homophile. should no longer be a timid campfollower. The he-man is opening the way. This is shown by his resumption of franker pants the return of the navy to its emphatic prow-cut was more than a straw in the wind-the use of jewelry, the reappearance of the vest and pleated shirt, the western shoe, the many "shave lotions." The preservation of Liberty is constant exercise. We know that nature in man is aiming at two things: (1) the reblending of those specialisations that have tended to diverge too widely, (2) the production of as many varieties and combinations as possible.

Nature has in man, as Carl Jung has long asserted, aimed at producing (as the difference between the sexes disappears with civilization) what he calls the great hermaphrodite. A better classical name for this, as has been proposed, is the Apollodian-the type which incorporates in his person the artist Apollo with Apollo's twin sister, the huntress Diana-Artemis.

The repression of the profound need for expression is very often the root cause of deep neurosis. Lately an increasing number of psychiatrists are abandoning the old negative method of digging up the buried

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kitchen middens and abandoned toilets of infancy. Grasping the new truth of evolution, they are curing their patients by encouraging them to construct the future they would like to have and helping them to live out and up to their creative fantasies. First by studying the relief and release results from the use of the carnival, the masked ball and fancy dress, these forward looking psychonaturalists have obtained remarkable results in cases long unamenable to all other procedures. The method had best be called sartotherapy. The analysand is first invited to describe himself as he would really like to appear, behave, look and smell. When, after a session or two, he finds his tentative hints are not snubbed or explained away but welcomed (for he discovers in the process that he is not wanting to hurt others but only to be let live), he becomes bold enough to be quite truthful and detailedly frank. It is interesting but not surprising that the subject sees himself not as a woman but in some variety of exhibitionist male costume. Encouragement to wear this in the privacy of the home has frequently proved sufficient to put him on the road to cheerful mental poise. As the head of one of our biggest mental homes said to the writer: "the refusal to let people play any but one stiff conventional jejune role is one of the chief sources of mental trouble."

Homophiles need to tolerate their own kind. We cannot tolerate what we will not try to understand. As all 'hetero-sexuals' have a "homosexual component" in their makeup, every male body has breasts and nipples; and as the majority must understand the minority-so the minority must also understand its Apollodian component. In every homophile there is a deep desire and need to express and to feel himself in a part that expresses and displays character and role which our arthritic, timid, "outer-directed,"

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