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Chapter 18 - Further aesthetic electrophysiological studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2010

G. -B. Duchenne de Boulogne
Edited and translated by
R. Andrew Cuthbertson
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Plates 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, and 84

Plate 79: Maternal happiness mixed with pain, from a psychological and aesthetic study of the expression resulting from the conflict of joy and of crying.

By covering the left eye, joy of a mother who sees her infant recovering from a serious illness; covering the right eye, the same maternal joy, united with pain produced by the death of another child. Electrical stimulation of m. corrugator supercilii, associated with the natural expression of joy.

Plate 80: Compassionate smile of charity. Benevolent smile, in covering the right side of the face; smile of pity, in covering the left side of the face. Light electrical contraction of m. zygomaticus minor, associated with natural laughter.

Plate 81: Lady Macbeth: Had he not resembled

My father as he slept, I had done't.

Moderate expression of cruelty. Feeble electrical contraction of m. procerus (P, Plate 1).

Plate 82: Lady Macbeth: Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me, from crown to the toe, top-full

Of direst cruelty.

Strong expression of cruelty. Electrical contraction of m. procerus.

Plate 83: Lady Macbeth – about to assassinate King Duncan. Expression of ferocious cruelty. Maximal electrical contraction of m. procerus.

Plate 84: Lady Macbeth – receiving King Duncan with a perfidious smile. […]

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The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression , pp. 114 - 210
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1990

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