Chromophobia
Chromophobia | |
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Other names | Chromatophobia |
The fear of the color red is called erythrophobia. | |
Specialty | Psychology |
Chromophobia (also known as chromatophobia
Chromophobia may also refer to an aversion of use of color in products or design.
Terminology
Names exist that mean fear of specific colors such as erythrophobia for the fear of red, xanthophobia for the fear of yellow and leukophobia for the fear of white.[2] A fear of the color red may be associated with a fear of blood.[2]
Overview
In his book Chromophobia published in 2000, David Batchelor says that in Western culture, color has often been treated as corrupting, foreign or superficial.[7] Michael Taussig states that the cultural aversion to color can be traced back a thousand years,[8] with Batchelor stating that it can be traced back to Aristotle's privileging of line over color.[9]
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The title character in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie has an aversion to the color red caused by a trauma during her childhood[14] which Hitchcock presents through expressionistic techniques, such as a wash of red coloring a close up of Marnie.[15]
The term colorphobia can also be used refer to its literal etymological origin to refer to an apprehension towards image processing on one's vision and its visual perceptual property.[16] However, the term's association with a racial component has been used by public figures such as Frederick Douglass.[17]
Leukophobia often takes the form of a fixation on pale skin. Those with the phobia may make implausible assumptions such as paleness necessarily representing ill health or a ghost.[18] In other cases, leukophobia is directed more towards the symbolic meaning of whiteness, for instance in individuals who associate the color white with chastity and are opposed to or fear chastity.[19] In Paul Beatty's novel Slumberland, leukophobia refers to racism.[20]
Variations
Chrysophobia | fear of the color orange |
Cyanophobia | fear of the color blue |
Erythrophobia | fear of the color red, maroon, and also of blushing |
Glaucophobia | fear of the color gray |
Kastanophobia | fear of the color brown |
Leukophobia | fear of the color white |
Melanophobia | fear of the color black |
Porphyrophobia | fear of the color purple |
Prasinophobia | fear of the color green |
Rhodophobia | fear of the color pink |
Xanthophobia | fear of the color yellow |
See also
References
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