| 释义 |
ocnophil, n. (and a.) Psychol.|ˈɒknəʊfɪl|
Also okno-.
[f. Gr. ὀκν-εῖν hesitate + -o1 + -phil.]
A person who seeks to avoid dangerous or unfamiliar situations, relying on external objects or other people for security, and tending to clutch or hold on to them when threatened. Also attrib. or as adj. Opp. *philobat n.
1955M. Balint in Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-Anal. XXXVI. 227/2 We need another term to describe the apparent opposite of a philobat, one who cannot stand swings and switchbacks, who prefers to clutch at something firm when his security is in any way endangered. For this I propose ‘ocnophil’, derived from the Greek word ὀκνέω, meaning ‘to shrink, to hesitate, to hang back’. Hence we get the adjective ‘ocnophilic’ and the abstract noun ‘ocnophilia’. 1972Psychiatry in Med. III. 407 Michael Balint's..description of two character types, the ocnophil and the philobat. 1979Jrnl. Psychohist. VI. 474 Sons or daughters of oknophil re-emigrants who had picked up some of the philobatic traits of American culture. 1986N. Symington Analytic Experience xxviii. 305 The ocnophil clings to his objects in fear.
Hence ocnoˈphilic a., pertaining to, designating, or characteristic of an ocnophil.
1955[see *ocnophil n. above]. 1986N. Symington Analytic Experience xxviii. 306 A patient who had a terror of water: in that she shrank away from it and clung to the shore, this was an ocnophilic defence. |