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Fetish/Fetishistic disavowal

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[[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]] [[disavow]]s this [[lack]] and finds an [[object]] (the [[fetish]]) as a [[symbolic]] [[substitute]] for the mother's [[lack|missing]] [[penis]].<ref>{{F}}. (1927e) "Fetishism", [[SE]] XXI, 149</ref>
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In [[Lacan]]'s first approach to the subject of [[fetishism]], in 1956, he argues that [[fetishism]] is a particularly important area of study and bemoans its neglect by his 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: ) "Variantes de la cure-type", in {{E}} p.267)</ref>
He cites [[Freud]]'s [[analysis]] of the phrase "''Glanz auf der Nase''" as support for his argument.<ref>{{F}} . (1927e.) "Fetishism", [[SE]] XXI, 149</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.
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