Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He developed the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Croydon
- Educated at
- King's College LondonSt Thomas's Hospital Medical School
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Joseph Wortis
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"The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life."
"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."
"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
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1859
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Birth1939
Died
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