[Ads-l] Antedating of "Psychosexual"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I should have said "mostly" and "writers."

JL

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What's surprising about these antedatings is that they all come from a
> once prominent writer.
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> JL
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> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
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>> Subject:      Antedating of "Psychosexual"
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>> psychosexual (OED 1894)
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>> 1892 Havelock Ellis _Letter to J. A. Symonds_ 21 Dec. in Sean Brady _John
>> A=
>> ddington Symonds (1840-1893) and Homosexuality_ (2012) 235  I thought it
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>> ght be desirable to give 3 or 4 cases of inverted sexuality or
>> psychosexual=
>>  hermaphroditism in distinguished men with some detail.
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>> Fred Shapiro
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