Xenophobia: An hysterical symptom characterized by a morbid dread of strangers . . . the course of these apprehensions is not in the stranger but in the xenophobic, whose defensiveness is directed actually against his own latent malevolence. . . . Xenophobia usually inspires elaborate and ingenious doctrine about the motivations, intentions, character and habits of strangers. (The Domesday Dictionary, by Donald M. Kaplan and Armand Schwerner, 1963)