Citations:nyctophilia

English citations of nyctophilia

• 1947, Bernard De Voto, Mountain Time, Boston : Little, Brown, page 340:

  […] love it, too, we hold it to our breast. She was holding it to her breast now. Certainly, both of us, all the time. Nyctophilia. There was no pressure of talk. Occasionally he was saying something about the Medical Corps in France. He decided that he was cherishing France because it meant the last time he had been whole. And with dependable […]

• 1971, Americas (English Ed.), volume 23:

  which disdains psychological analysis—"the obscurities that one encounters in Herman Melville or in Franz Kafka are not due to lack of resources for illumination, to artifices, or even to nyctophilia; they derive from the ultimate mystery of existence";  […]

• 1972, Contemporary Gujarati Poetry, Surat : Western India Publishing Company, page 6:

  Manilal Desai died at a very young age. His posthumous collection edited by his friends manifests modern lyricism, nyctophilia and death obsessions. […]

• 2014, Felicia Zopol, The Sex Instruction Manual: Essential Information and Techniques for Optimum Performance, Quirk Books (→ISBN), page 174:

  Getting Lost: Lovers engaged in nyctophilia can become disoriented in near-total darkness. It's easy […] Use your voice to locate your partner, then move slowly toward the voice. […]

• 2020, Ethan Blake, Into the Hollow, first page of chapter 4:

  It was late. The clock had just struck midnight and Thomas was distracting himself with another virtual reality horror game. Maybe it was a simple case of nyctophilia, but he found a certain level of comfort in scary games, especially the ones that involved Bigfoot. It was officially Halloween; and anything was better than thinking about that damned photograph […]

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• 1969, Bertram David Lewin, The Image and the Past:

  There is also a complementary nyctophilia, an erotic pleasure in darkness, which enters as a wish-fulfilling element in fantasies of being in the "womb," or more properly, as the German word Mutterleib suggests, of being in the mother's body.

• 1995, Lewis A. Lawson, Elżbieta H. Oleksy, Walker Percy's Feminine Characters, page 8:

  [It is] not too much to suggest that he experiences "nyctophilia," defined by Bertram Lewin as "an erotic pleasure in darkness, which enters as a wish-fulfillment element in fantasies of being in the 'womb,' or more properly, as the German word Mutterleib suggests, of being in […]