What the Nose Knows - Avery Gilbert [119]
The original texts On November 14, 1897, Freud wrote to his colleague Wilhelm Fliess in Berlin and speculated about a biological basis for the psychological repression of sexual impulses; see The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess 1887–1904, edited by J. M. Masson (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1985), pp. 278–82.
“audacious, highly speculative” Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, translated by James Strachey with introduction by Peter Gay (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989).
helped devalue smell Annick Le Guérer, “Olfaction and cognition: A philosophical and psychoanalytic overview,” in C. Rouby, B. Schaal, et al., eds., Olfaction, Taste, and Cognition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 6.
University of Texas study D. Singh and P. M. Bronstad, “Female body odour is a potential cue to ovulation,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 268 (2001):797–801.
psychologist Paul Rozin A. Wrzesniewski, C. McCauley, and P. Rozin, “Odor and affect: Individual differences in the impact of odor on liking for places, things and people,” Chemical Senses 24 (1999):713–21.
psychoanalyst Annick Le Guérer Le Guérer, in C. Rouby, B. Schaal, et al., eds., 2002, p. 6.
anthropologist David Howes David Howes, “Freud’s nose: The repression of nasality and the origin of psychoanalytic theory,” in Victoria De Rijke, Lene Østermark-Johansen, and Helen Thomas, eds., Nose Book: Representations of the Nose in Literature and the Arts (London: Middlesex University Press, 2000), pp. 265–81.
a medical disaster zone Frank J. Sulloway, Freud, Biologist of the Mind (New York: Basic Books, 1979), p. 143. See also Max Schur, Freud: Living and Dying (International Universities Press, 1972), pp. 77–90 for details of operation; Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, vol. 1, 1856–1900: The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries (New York: Basic Books, 1953), pp. 308–9.
“No doubt there is a vast difference” W. H. Hudson, “On the Sense of Smell,” The Century Magazine, August 1922, pp. 497–506.
a man-bites-dog story A. N. Gilbert, K. Yamazaki, et al., “Olfactory discrimination of mouse strains (Mus musculus) and major histocompatibility types by humans (Homo sapiens),” Journal of Comparative Psychology 100(1986):262–65.
impressive man-smells-dog story D. L. Wells and P. G. Hepper, “The discrimination of dog odours by humans,” Perception 29 (2000):111–15.
dogs can sniff out bladder cancer C. M. Willis, S. M. Church, et al., “Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: Proof of principle study,” BMJ 329 (2004):712–14; but also see M. Leahy, “Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: Cause or association?” and J. S. Welsh, “Olfactory detection of human bladder cancer by dogs: Another cancer detected by ‘pet scan,’” in ibid., 1286–87.
Just by smelling some ice cream S. Jiamyangyuen, J. F. Delwiche, and W. J. Harper, “The impact of wood ice cream sticks’ origin on the aroma of exposed ice cream mixes,” Journal of Dairy Science 85 (2002):355–59.
Feynman had a great party trick Richard P. Feynman, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character (New York: W. W. Norton, 1985).
hand odor is individually distinctive P. Wallace, “Individual discrimination of humans by odor,” Physiology & Behavior 19 (1977):577–79.
the quintessential doggy task J. Porter, B. Craven, et al., “Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans,” Nature Neuroscience 10 (2007):27–29.
drug dogs and humans have almost identical sensitivity Lorenzo, Wan, et al., “Laboratory and field experiments,” p. 1213.
“of extremely slight service” Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, vol. 1 (London: John Murray, 1871), pp. 23–24.
“Among the apes it has greatly lost importance” Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Selection in Man (Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, 1922), pp. 47, 48.
“The sense of smell in primates