ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys the vast phenomenological and etiological terrain associated with sexual pleasure in looking and with the specific sexual perversion involving looking. It elucidates the nosological conundrum resulting from the deployment of overlapping terms such as ‘scopophilia’, ‘scoptophilia’, and ‘voyeurism’. Then it discusses the biopsychosocial substrate of these entities, paying attention to the evolutionary, sociocultural, and ontogenetic tributaries to the causation of voyeurism. Finally, it delineates the nuances of psychoanalytic technique in dealing with erotic, eroticized, and perverse forms of looking.
