Citations:agalmatophilia

English citations of agalmatophilia

• 1979, Francis Schiller, Paul Broca, founder of French anthropology, explorer of the brain‎^[1], page 291:

  Not so the biographer: an avid collector of all palpable evidence, he is also afflicted with something called "agalmatophilia" or monumentomania.

• 1999, Stephen Michael Wheeler, A discourse of wonders: audience and performance in Ovid's Metamorphoses‎^[2], page 156:

  In the end, contrary to rational expectation, Pygmalion's seemingly misguided belief in the realism of the statue does not lead to agalmatophilia.

• 2006, Laurence Simmons, Freud's Italian Journey‎^[3], page 163:

  Significantly it is another of those small details in the text, the fact that the approaching Gradiva should startle a lizard, which saves us as readers from the icy returns of agalmatophilia.

• 2008, Stephen T. Holmes, Ronald M. Holmes, Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior‎^[4], page 87:

  Pygmalionism (sometimes called agalmatophilia), is a sexual attraction to a statue, doll, or mannequin.