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==Definition== "[[fetishism ]]" (fÈtichisme[[Fr]]. ''[[fétichisme]]'')
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The term '"[[fetish' used ]]" first came into widespread use in the eighteenth century in the context of the study of '"[[religion|primitive religions' denotes ," in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship.
In the nineteenth century, [[Marx]] borrowed the term to describe the way that, in capitalist societies, social relations assume the illusory form of relations between things ("[[commodity fetishism]]]").
[[Karl Marx]] used It was Krafft-Ebing who, in the term '[[commodity fetishism]]]' to describe last decade of the way that, in capitalist societynineteenth century, social relations assume first applied the illusory form of relations between thingsterm to sexual behavior.
He defined [[fetishism]] as a [[perversion|sexual perversion]] in which sexual excitement is absolute dependent on the presence of a specific [[object]] (the [[fetish]]).
Fetishism is a sexual perversion in which sexual excitement is absolutely dependent on the presence of a specific object (the fetish).The [[fetish ]] is usually an inanimate [[object ]] such as a shoe or piece of underwear.Freud argued that fetishism (seen as an almost exclusively male perversion) originates in the child's horror of female castration. Confronted with the mother's lack of a penis, the fetishist disavows this lack and finds an object (the fetish) as a symbolic substitute for the mother's missing penis.<ref>Freud, 1927e</ref>
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[[Freud]] argued that [[fetishism]] (seen as an almost exclusively [[male]] [[perversion]]) originates in the [[child]]'s horror of [[female]] [[castration]].
In LacanConfronted with the [[mother]]'s first approach to the subject [[lack]] of fetishisma [[penis]], in 1956, he argues that fetishism is the [[fetishist]] [[disavow]]s this [[lack]] and finds an [[object]] (the [[fetish]]) as a particularly important area of study and bemoans its neglect by his contemporaries[[symbolic]] [[substitute]] for the mother's [[lack|missing]] [[penis]].<ref>{{F}}. 1927e</ref>
He stresses that the equivalence between the fetish and the maternal PHALLUs can only be understood by reference to linguistic transformations, and not by reference to 'vague analogies in the visual field' such as comparisons between fur and pubic hair (Lacan, 1956b: 267). --
He cites FreudIn [[Lacan]]'s analysis first approach to the subject of [[fetishism]], in 1956, he argues that [[fetishism]] is a particularly important area of the phrase 'Glanz auf der Nase' as support for study and bemoans its neglect by his argument (see Freud, 1927e)contemporaries.
He stresses that the equivalence between the [[fetish]] and the [[mother|maternal]] [[phallus]] can only be understood by reference to linguistic transformations, and not by reference to "vague analogies in the visual field' such as comparisons between fur and pubic hair."<ref>{{L}} 1956b: 267)</ref>
In the following years, as Lacan develops his distinction between the penis and phallus, he emphasises that the fetish is a substitute for the latter, not the former. Lacan also extends the mechanism of He cites [[Freud]]'s [[disavowalanalysis]], making it the operation constitutive of perversion itself, and not just of the fetishistic perversionphrase "''Glanz auf der Nase''" as support for his argument. However, he retains Freud's view that fetishism is an exclusively male perversion,<ref>Ec, 734</ref> or at least extremely rare among women{{F}} 1927e.<ref>S4, 154</ref>
In the seminar of 1956-7following years, as [[Lacan elaborates an important ]] develops his distinction between the fetish object [[penis]] and [[phallus]], he emphasises that the phobic object; whereas the [[fetish ]] is a symbolic substitute for the mother's missing phalluslatter, not the phobic object is an imaginary substitute for symbolic castration (see PHOBIA)former. Like all perversions, fetishism is rooted in the preoedipal triangle of mother-child-phallus (S4, 84-5, 194).However, it is unique in that it involves both identification with mother and with the imaginary phallus; indeed, in fetishism, the subject oscillates between these two identifications.<ref>S4, 86, 160</ref>
[[Lacan]] also extends the mechanism of [[disavowal]], making it the operation constitutive of [[perversion]] itself, and not just of the [[fetishistic]] [[perversion]].  However, he retains [[Freud]]'s view that [[fetishism]] is an exclusively [[male]] [[perversion]],<ref>{{Ec}} 734</ref> or at least extremely rare among [[women]].<ref>{{S4}} p.154</ref> In the [[seminar]] of 1956-7, [[Lacan]] elaborates an important distinction between the [[fetish]] [[object]] and the [[phobic]] [[object]]; whereas the [[fetish]] is a [[symbolic]] substitute for the [[mother]]'s [[lack|missing]] [[phallus]], the [[phobia|phobic]] [[object]] is an [[imaginary]] substitute for [[symbolic]] [[castration]].  Like all [[perversion]]s, [[fetishism]] is rooted in the [[preoedipal]] [[structure|triangle]] of [[mother]]-[[child]]-[[phallus]].<ref>{{S4}} p.84-5, 194</ref> However, it is unique in that it involves both [[identification]] with [[mother]] and with the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]]; indeed, in [[fetishism]], the [[subject]] oscillates between these two [[identification]]s.<ref>{{S4}} p.86, 160</ref> [[Lacan]]'s statement, in 1958, that the [[penis ']] "takes on the value of a fetish' " for heterosexual women raises a number of interesting questions.<ref>{{E, }} p.290</ref> Firstly, it reverses [[Freud]]'s views on [[fetishism]]; rather than the [[fetish ]] being a [[symbolic ]] substitute for the [[real ]] [[penis]], the [[real ]] [[penis ]] may itself become a [[fetish ]] by substituting the [[woman]]'s [[absent ]] [[symbolic ]] [[phallus]].  Secondly, it undermines the claims (made by both [[Freud ]] and [[Lacan]]) that [[fetishism ]] is extremely rare among [[women]]; if the [[penis ]] can be considered a [[fetish]], then [[fetishism ]] is clearly far more prevalent among [[women ]] than among [[men]].
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