Havelock Ellis
Biographical note
British physician and psychologist, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, including transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. As a contemporary progressive thinker, he supported eugenics and served as president of the Galton Institute.
Works
- Christopher Marlowe. Edited by Havelock Ellis, with a general introd. on the English drama during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. [1887]
- The Criminal [1890/1901]
- The New Spirit [1890/1892]
- The Nationalisation of Health [1892]
- Man and woman: a study of human secondary sexual characters [1904]
- Germinal, by Zola (as translator) [1895, reissued 1933]
- Affirmations [1898]
- The Nineteenth Century: A Dialogue in Utopia [1900]
- A study of British genius [1904]
- The soul of Spain [1908]
- Studies in the Psychology of Sex [1927]
- The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism [1900]
- Sexual Inversion [1897, with J.A. Symonds]
- Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women [1903]
- Sexual Selection in Man [1905]
- Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy [1906]
- Sex in Relation to Society [1910]
- The problem of race-regeneration [1911]
- The world of dreams [1911]
- The Task of Social Hygiene [1912]
- Impressions and Comments [1914–1924]
- Essays in War-Time : Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene [1916]
- The philosophy of conflict, and other essays in war-time [1919]
- On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue [1921]
- Kanga Creek: an Australian idyll [1922]
- Little Essays of Love and Virtue [1922]
- The Dance of Life [1923]
- Sonnets, with Folk Songs from the Spanish [1925]
- Eonism and Other Supplementary Studies [1928]
- The Art of Life [1929] (selected and arranged by Mrs. S. Herbert)
- More Essays of Love and Virtue [1931]
- Views and Reviews [1932]
- Psychology of Sex [1933]
- Chapman [1934]
- My Confessional [1934]
- Questions of Our Day [1934]
- From Rousseau to Proust [1935]
- Selected Essays [1936]
- Poems [1937] (selected by John Gawsworth; pseudonym of T. Fytton Armstrong)
- Love and Marriage [1938] (with others)
- My Life [1939]
- Sex Compatibility in Marriage [1939]
- From Marlowe to Shaw [1950] (ed. by J. Gawsworth)
- The Genius of Europe [1950]
- Sex and Marriage [1951] (ed. by J. Gawsworth)
- The Unpublished Letters of Havelock Ellis to Joseph Ishill [1954]
