Talk:Scopophilia

OED Entry
In case anyone wants to start this entry, here's a jumping off point (also see Jaques Lacan ):

scopophilia, n.

Pronunciation: /skɒpəʊˈfɪlɪə/ Forms: Also scoptophilia (but see quot. 1968), skoptophilia. Etymology: A formative element < Greek -σκοπία observation (compare -scopy comb. form) + -philia comb. form.(Show Less)


 * Psychol.


 * Sexual stimulation or satisfaction derived principally from looking; voyeurism.

1924   J. Riviere tr. Freud Psychogenic Visual Disturbance in Coll. Papers II. 111  The obscure psychical processes implicit in the repression of scoptophilia and in the outbreak of psychogenic visual disturbance.

1928   H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex VII. vi. 362  The failure to react to sex attractions‥is a well-defined sexual perversion, with relationships to other perversions, especially scoptophilia.

1937   M. Hirschfeld Sexual Anomalies xxviii. 621  One of the principal criteria of pathological scopophilia is the dominant character of the urge.

1957   J. Strachey tr. Freud Instincts & Viciss. in Compl. Wks. XIV. 129  The instincts whose respective aim is to look at and to display oneself (scopophilia and exhibitionism, in the language of the perversions).

1960   Spectator 8 Apr. 506/3   Perhaps I am going ga-ga through skoptophilia.

1968   C. Rycroft Crit. Dict. Psychoanal. 148  Scopophilia‥, the spelling ‘scoptophilia’ dates from a mistake made by Freud's first translators.

MLA end note citation: "scopophilia, n.". OED Online. September 2011. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2011 .

There's obviously more. The link is in the citation. Also, I didn't do all the formatting because I'm busy. So italics are missing, etc. --24.61.191.94 (talk) 04:46, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * In the etymology, φῐλῐ́ᾱ philíā is defined as, "the tendency towards" - shouldn't that be "love"?

Link dump?
While I'm here... here's a link to the Purdue site on Lacan site that references scopophilia: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/psychoanalysis/lacanstructure.html

I'll try and throw more, actual academic junk at this when I have time. And maybe even attempt to begin an entry. Unless someone else already has by the time I come back. --24.61.191.94 (talk) 04:55, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Vs. Voyeurism?
I'm not clear on the difference between Scopophilia and voyeurism. Seems like something common enough that it would merit an explanation in the intro. mcs (talk) 23:01, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Scopophilia vs scoptophilia
I propose that we use throughout the article the word "scopophilia" and not "scoptophilia", except in direct quotations where the form that appears in the source should be maintained. This is because although scoptophilia may have been the form originally coined (at least I believe this to be the case), this is in fact an error: the Greek root scop- (to look to) is the intended meaning. Most unfortunately, scopt- is also a Greek root meaning "to make fun of", so although this error persisted for an embarrassingly long time in the literature in general - sufficiently so for it to deserve its own mention in this article - the fact that this error produces a plausible word (i.e. deriving pleasure from making fun of people) makes it important to cease to reproduce this error outside of direct quotations. Source: Dictionary of Psychology, edited by H.C. Warren (1934) Anditres (talk) 22:38, 10 August 2022 (UTC)