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Oikophobia
In psychiatry, oikophobia or ecophobia is an aversion to home surroundings. It can also be used more generally to mean an abnormal fear (a phobia) of the home, or of the contents of a house ("fear of household appliances, equipment, bathtubs, household chemicals, and other common objects in the home").〔Ronald Manual Doctor, Ada P. Kahn, Christine A. Adamec. ''The encyclopedia of phobias, fears, and anxieties.'' Third edition. Infobase Publishing, 2008. Page 281; p. 286.〕 The term derives from the Greek words ''oikos'', meaning household, house, or family, and ''phobia'', meaning "fear".
In 1808 the poet and essayist Robert Southey used the word to describe a desire (particularly by the English) to leave home and travel. Southey's usage as a synonym for wanderlust was picked up by other nineteenth century writers.
In a 2004 book, the word was adapted by the British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton to mean "the repudiation of inheritance and home."〔Roger Scruton, ''England and the Need for Nations'', (London: Civitas, 2004), pp.33-38 and for the excerpt of Scruton's definition ()〕 He argued that it is "a stage through which the adolescent mind normally passes", but that it is a feature of some, typically leftist, political impulses and ideologies which espouse xenophilia (preference for alien cultures).〔Roger Scruton, "Oikophobia and Xenophilia", in ''Stereotypes and Nations'', Teresa Walas (ed), Cracow International Cultural Center, 287-292.〕
==Psychiatric usage==
In psychiatric usage oikophobia typically refers to fear of the physical space of the home interior, and is especially linked to fear of household appliances, baths, electrical equipment and other aspects of the home perceived to be potentially dangerous.〔 The term is properly applied only to fear of objects within the house. Fear of the house itself is referred to as ''domatophobia''.〔 In the post-World War II era some commentators used the term to refer to a supposed "fear and loathing of housework" experienced by women who worked outside the home and who were attracted to a consumerist lifestyle.〔Robert G. Moeller, ''Protecting motherhood: Women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany'', University of California Press, 1993, p.140.〕
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