Studies in the Psychology of Sex

Studies in the Psychology of Sex
Author: Havelock Ellis
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2001-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0898755883

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The Psychology of Sex (Vol. 1-6)

The Psychology of Sex (Vol. 1-6)
Author: Havelock Ellis
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 2549
Release: 2022-12-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

This edition contains three studies which seem to me to be necessary prolegomena to that analysis of the sexual instinct which must form the chief part of an investigation into the psychology of sex. The first sketches the main outlines of a complex emotional state which is of fundamental importance in sexual psychology; the second, by bringing together evidence from widely different regions, suggests a tentative explanation of facts that are still imperfectly known; the third attempts to show that even in fields where we assume our knowledge to be adequate a broader view of the phenomena teaches us to suspend judgment and to adopt a more cautious attitude. So far as they go, these studies are complete in themselves; their special use, as an introduction to a more comprehensive analysis of sexual phenomena, is that they bring before us, under varying aspects, a characteristic which, though often ignored, is of the first importance in obtaining a clear understanding of the facts: the tendency of the sexual impulse to appear in a spontaneous and to some extent periodic manner, affecting women differently from men. This is a tendency which, later, I hope to make still more apparent, for it has practical and social, as well as psychological, implications. Here—and more especially in the study of those spontaneous solitary manifestations which I call auto-erotic—I have attempted to clear the ground, and to indicate the main lines along which the progress of our knowledge in these fields may best be attained.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex Volume 3

Studies in the Psychology of Sex Volume 3
Author: Havelock Ellis
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781505858532

Analysis of the sexual impulse, love and pain, the sexual impulse in women "The origin of these Studies dates from many years back. As a youth I was faced, as others are, by the problem of sex. Living partly in an Australian city where the ways of life were plainly seen, partly in the solitude of the bush, I was free both to contemplate and to meditate many things. A resolve slowly grew up within me: one main part of my life-work should be to make clear the problems of sex. That was more than twenty years ago. Since then I can honestly say that in all that I have done that resolve has never been very far from my thoughts. I have always been slowly working up to this central problem; and in a book published some three years ago-Man and Woman: a Study of Human Secondary Sexual Characters-I put forward what was, in my own eyes, an introduction to the study of the primary questions of sexual psychology."