293 Pages
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Routledge
293 Pages
by
Routledge
293 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1979, Havelock Ellis is a biography of the philosopher of sex. Havelock Ellis trained first as a doctor but soon broke out of conventional medicine to shock Victorian England with his encyclopaedic seven-volume work, Studies in the Psychology of Sex. One of the last representatives of the days when man could attempt to embrace a universal view, he wrote more than fifty... Read more
Preface Acknowledgments Prologue 1. First beginnings 2. Australian interluded 3. Medical training and Olive Schreiner 4. His writing career begins 5. Meets his wife-to-be 6. Marriage to Edith 7. Studies in sex begin 8. His wife’s lesbian experience 9. Sex studies develop 10. A typical ‘perversion’ case 11. Marital troubles 12. Sex in relation to society 13. Edith goes to America 14. Edith’s attempted suicide and death 15. A new love life 16. The dance of life 17. Freud’s relations with Ellis 18. Jealousy breaks in 19. A serious illness 20. Last years and death Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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