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           3 November l9O9  4O7 Brunswick Avenue  Toronto

Dear Professor Freud,

«IP4,0»I have collected a number of interesting facts about superstitions and beliefs relating to the right and left side respectively.  Could you give me any idea as to the relation of the subject to sexuality?  I know of course Fliess' hypothesis about left‑handedness, but I don't suppose you at all agree with that.«FN1.××Wilhelm Fliess (1858‑1928), ears, nose, and throat specialist, practising in Berlin;  close colleague of Freud between 1897 and 1900.  Fliess posited that bisexuality was associated with right‑ and left‑handedness, and that secondary sexual characters of the nondominant bisexual disposition are more prominent in those who are left‑handed, see W. Fliess, «MDUL»Der«MDNM» «MDUL»Ablauf«MDNM» «MDUL»des«MDNM» «MDUL»Lebens«MDNM»: «MDUL»Grundlegung«MDNM» «MDUL»zur«MDNM» «MDUL»exakten«MDNM» «MDUL»Biologie«MDNM» (Leipzig and Vienna, 1906, pp. 537‑571).  In a letter to Abraham of 6 April 1914, Freud denounced Fliess's theory, see H. Abraham and E. Freud (1965, p. 171).  This note is also revealing of Jones's attempts at exploring his own bisexuality.  See especially his comments about 'right and left' to Putnam of 1 July 1910 in Hale (1971a, p. 221).»

Things are going well here with Brill and myself. Yours ever  Ernest Jones.