“…however, the physiognomic game does not simply involve two dimensions (sōma/psychē). there is a third actor, eidos, representing psychosomatic coupling: the monkey, by nature endowed with hollow eyes and villainy (811b19), is living proof that these two seemingly dispa rate characteristics are twin manifestations of the same background, in other words, that the visible physical expression (small eyes) and the characterological expression (his petty behavior) exhibit a single form that speaks simultaneously two languages (Zucker 2006). …”