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Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

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PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXJames Frazer, as Rank firstpo<strong>in</strong>ted out, here furnish<strong>in</strong>gmuch material for psychologicaluse.HAVELOCK ELLIS, Studies <strong>in</strong>I and VII.BIBLIOGRAPHYthe <strong>Psychology</strong> <strong>of</strong> Sex, Vols.S. FREUD, Three Contributions to Sexual Theory, andCollected Papers, Vol. IV.J. HARNIK, "The Developments <strong>of</strong> Narcissism <strong>in</strong> Manand Woman," Int. Jour. Psycho-analysis, Jan., 1924.Education <strong>in</strong>SexWhen we survey the manifestations <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>fancy andchildhood, we see that <strong>in</strong> relation to <strong>sex</strong> they may sometimesbe apparently non-existent, when present are usuallynot to be ex-vague, and when def<strong>in</strong>ite are frequentlypla<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> the way they would be expla<strong>in</strong>ed i occurr<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong> an adult.The result has been, as we know, that putt<strong>in</strong>g asidethose persons, now grow<strong>in</strong>g few <strong>in</strong> number, who wereonce horrified at the suggestion <strong>of</strong> anyth<strong>in</strong>g <strong>sex</strong>ual <strong>in</strong> the<strong>in</strong>fantile psyche even good observers have varied <strong>in</strong> theirattitude and policy with regard to <strong>sex</strong> <strong>in</strong> early life. Thereare those who feel unable to recognize any genu<strong>in</strong>e <strong>sex</strong>ualmanifestations, at an early age, <strong>in</strong> healthy normal children;there are those who recognizeit allthe time, alike<strong>in</strong> sound and <strong>in</strong> neurotic children, though f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g thatits manifestations vary and change; there are those, itmayperhaps be added, who even admitt<strong>in</strong>g the presence <strong>of</strong><strong>sex</strong>ual signs, regard them as not normal for the stage <strong>of</strong>childhood. That, at all events, is the later op<strong>in</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> Rank<strong>in</strong> his work on Modern Education. "Sexuality is not naturalto the child/' he observes; "it might rather be con-

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