Voyeur is a person who enjoys watching sexual or intimate activities of people. The term "voyeurism" covers a fairly wide range of conditions. Moreover, only part of them are considered perverted.
The origins of voyeurism
The unconscious level of voyeurism is similar to exhibitionism. Both deviations most often arise on the basis of childhood experiences, on which voyeurs are painfully concentrated. Such experiences are unexpected (or shameful) visual images. For example, scenes of a sexual nature seen in childhood or even just caught a glimpse of the genitals of adults. Such experiences cause the voyeur to have subconscious fear, which he tries to deny by repeating the traumatic experience.
Such voyeurism is based on a thirst to replace obsessive pictures from childhood with more acceptable ones. Thus, the voyeur replaces children's fear and convinces himself of the absence of danger.
In adolescence, voyeurism is a form of healthy sexual curiosity.
Quite often, voyeurism affects people for whom the main channel of perception of information is visual. That is why people for whom the visual component is a significant part of work or life are often prone to voyeurism.
Experiences close in their essence to voyeurism are formed in infancy when a child learns to identify his mother by face. If a little later (for example, during excommunication) he has a fear of loss or loss, this may give impetus to the formation of the need to observe the lives of other people. If in early childhood (up to two years) a person has a painful and traumatic rupture with his mother, this can lead to a lot of disorders. Such experience can cause problems of gender identity, deterioration of self-identification, inadequacy of protective reactions. All this can act as factors for the development of perverse voyeurism.
If the desire to spy on someone else's life becomes obsessive, voyeurism is recognized as a form of a rather serious disease.
