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- pluralplural of philia
He noted that "these philias have a sexual association attached to them".
2006, Bruce A. Arrigo, Catherine E Purcell, The Psychology of Lust Murder: Paraphilia, Sexual Killing, and Serial Homicide, page 155 more examples
Phobias, philias, manias, perversities, and mental disorders are abnormal instincts. ... Phobias, philias, manias, perversities, and mental disorders teach us how normal instincts work (=how the mind works).
2003, Nils K Oeijord, Why Gould Was Wrong, page 68[Defining "Philia"] The near-opposite of phobia, except that only a few phobias have a specifically sexual context whereas most philias (called paraphilias) are erotic attachments experienced almost exclusively by men, often termed fetishes.
1999, Raymond J Corsini, The Dictionary of Psychology, page 719Philias and phobias can also be included in this category of behavioral traits. The correspondence of the child's philias and phobias to those of the previous personality, or which could be explained on the basis of the previous personality's mode of death, can be assessed.
1994, David E. Young, Jean-Guy (EDT) Goulet, Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience page 262Wasson traces the movements of certain groups and identifies pockets of philias and phobias.
1994, Rumack H. Rumack, David G. Spoerke, Barry H. Rumack, Handbook of Mushroom Poisoning: Diagnosis and Treatment, page 11Everyone must destroy even more carefully than his phobias, his “philias,” his complacent acceptance of first intuitions.
1987, Gaston Bachelard, Psychoanalysis of Fire, page 6
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