Scopophilia or scoptophilia, from Greek "love of looking", is deriving pleasure from looking.
As an expression of sexuality, it refers to sexual pleasure derived from looking at erotic objects: erotic photographs, pornography, naked bodies, etc.
Alternatively, this term was used by cinema psychoanalysts of the 1970s to describe pleasures (often considered pathological[1]) and other unconscious processes occurring in spectators when they watch films. The term was borrowed from psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan.[2]
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References
- ^ "Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television", by John Thornton Caldwell (1995) ISBN 0813521645, p. 343
- ^ "The Money Shot", by Jane Mills (2001) ISBN 1864031425, p. 223
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