scopophilian.

1924 J. Riviere tr. S. 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. S. 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.

1940 C. Allen Sexual Perversions iv. 75 The scoptophiliac pervert may occur in two varieties.

1960 R. Heppenstall Four Absentees xxiii. 198 Gill was a bit of a scopophiliac, a ‘voyeur’.

1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 June 394/2 There appears to be a..scopophiliac streak in both.

1931 J. C. Flügel in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. ix. 374 Those [sc. component instincts] connected with the activities of vision..the active or ‘scoptophilic’, and the passive or ‘exhibitionistic’.

1957 J. Strachey tr. S. Freud Instincts & Viciss. in Compl. Wks. XIV. 130 For the beginning of its activity the scopophilic instinct is auto-erotic.

1971 Psychol. Abstr. XLV. June 1131/2 A sexually inhibited male scopophilic.

1930 W. Empson Seven Types Ambiguity ii. 69 Shakespeare's partly scoptophile desire to see him settled in love.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 402/3 An eventual future in which..nobody will wear anything at all;..and the scoptophilists will have their day.