epistemophilia

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An excessive love of, or striving for, knowledge.
2. isim As used by psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, epistemophilia—or, as she framed it, the "epistemophilic instinct"—is the wish to know, and is rooted in libido. Such instinct results from Oedipal conflicts in the child psyche.