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Ethel Spector Person

Born

in Louisville, Kentucky, The United States

December 16, 1934

Died

October 16, 2012

Genre

Psychology, Human Sexuality

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Ethel Person, a Columbia University psychiatrist, did pioneering research on sexuality, visiting sex shops and drag dance clubs to help herself understand what motivates transsexuals and transvestites, and conducting broad-based clinical studies on the role of sexual fantasy in people’s lives.

Dr. Person wrote frequently on love and sexuality for general-interest publications and was the author of four books, the best known of which is By Force of Fantasy: How We Make Our Lives (1995), in which she argued that people shaped their lives by trying consciously or unconsciously to live out their fantasies. ...more

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	On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" by Ethel Spector Person, Leticia Glocer Fiorini (Editor), Thierry Bokanowski (Editor) 4.05 avg rating — 717 ratings — published 1917 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion 4.02 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Force of Fantasy: How We Make Our Lives 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1920 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feeling Strong: How Power Issues Affect Our Ability to Direct Our Own Lives – A Psychoanalyst's Exploration of Authentic Strength and Human Nature 3.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Freud's A Child is Being Beaten by Ethel Spector Person (Editor), Sigmund Freud, Jack Novic (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1919 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Freud's "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming" (Contemporary Freud Series) by Ethel Spector Person (Editor), Servulo Figueira, Sigmund Freud 3.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook Of Psychoanalysis 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sexual Century 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE FORCE OF FANTASY: Its Power to Transform Our Lives liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pegan a un niño 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Too easily, in the name of the good, or the rational, or the moral, or the Christian, or the democratic, or even the merely socially acceptable, we blink away the actualities of our condition—the feelings, drives, dreams, and desires that express, with painful accuracy, the depths at which we really live. Not where we think or imagine we should live, or where society advises us to live, but where our lives are fueled and our deepest satisfactions experienced—this is what we disregard. We allow ourselves too often to live lives that are secondhand and largely theoretical.”
― Ethel Spector Person, Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion

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“But recourse to the instruments of power, whether domination or submission, even when it is successful at stabilizing love, ultimately leaves the lover with a sense of sadness, a feeling that love is not naturally his due, but rather that he has had to elicit it by force or secure it through guile. To be loved as a consequence of coercion or guile is to forgo the experience of feeling loved for oneself.”
― Ethel Spector Person, Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion

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“But as I have previously suggested, it is somewhat naive to think that economic equality alone would equalize the power balance of a marriage. Economic emancipation is surely to be applauded—is indispensable really—but as long as older women are viewed as sexually less desirable than older men, a power imbalance will continue to exist, one that will continue to influence women to hold their tongues, keep the peace, and take the responsibility for pre- serving the marriage.”
― Ethel Spector Person, Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion

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