oikophobia

In psychiatry, oikophobia is an aversion to home surroundings.

The term oikophobia is used to refer to fear of the home or of household appliances.

Eicophobia or Oikophobia - Fear of home surroundings.

Southey's link of oikophobia to wealth and the search for new experiences was taken up by other writers, and cited in dictionaries.

De angst voor het eigene (Oikophobia.

Scruton described "a chronic form of oikophobia [which] has spread through the American universities, in the guise of political correctness."

In 1959 the Anglo-Egyptian author Bothaina Abd el-Hamid Mohamed used Southey's concept in his book Oikophobia: or, A literary craze for education through travel.

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.

In his book, Roger Scruton: Philosopher on Dover Beach, Mark Dooley describes oikophobia as centered within the Western academic establishment on "both the common culture of the West, and the old educational curriculum that sought to transmit its humane values."

An extreme aversion to the sacred and the thwarting of the connection of the sacred to the culture of the West is described as the underlying motif of oikophobia; and not the substitution of Judeo-Christianity by another coherent system of belief.

In August 2010 James Taranto wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal entitled Oikophobia, Why the liberal elite finds Americans revolting in which he criticized supporters of the proposed Islamic center in New York as oikophobes who were defending Muslims who aimed to "exploit the 9/11 atrocity".