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---==Definition==The term "[[fetishism|fetish]]" first came into widespread use in the eighteenth century in the context of the study of "[[religion|primitive religions," in which it denoted an inanimate object of worship.

==Perversion==It was Krafft-Ebing who, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, first applied the term to [[sexuality|sexual behavior]].

He defined [[fetishism]] as a [[perversion|sexual perversion]] in which [[enjoyment|sexual excitement ]] is absolute dependent on the [[presence ]] of a specific [[object]] (the [[fetishism|fetish]]).

The [[fetishism|fetish]] is usually an inanimate [[object]] such as a shoe or piece of underwear. ---

Confronted with the [[mother]]'s [[lack]] of a [[penis]], the [[fetishism|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) "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Fetishism]]", 1927e. [[SE]] XXI, 149</ref>

In He stresses that the equivalence between the [[fetishism|fetish]] and the [[Lacanmother|maternal]] [[phallus]]'s first approach can only be understood by reference to the subject of [[fetishismlinguistic]]transformations, and not by reference to "vague analogies in 1956, he argues that the visual field" such as comparisons between fur and pubic hair."<ref>{{L}} "[[fetishismWorks of Jacques Lacan|Variantes de la cure-type]] is a particularly important area of study and bemoans its neglect by his contemporaries", in {{E}} [1956b]. p. 267)</ref>

He stresses that the equivalence between the cites [[fetishFreud]] and the 's [[mother|maternalanalysis]] [[phallus]] can only be understood by reference to linguistic transformations, and not by reference to of the phrase "vague analogies in the visual field' such 'Glanz auf der Nase''" as comparisons between fur and pubic hairsupport for his argument."<ref>{{LF}} (1956b) "Variantes de la cure-type[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Fetishism]]", in {{E}} p1927e.267)[[SE]] XXI, 149</ref>

He cites ==Penis and Phallus==In the following years, as [[Lacan]] develops his distinction between the [[Freudpenis]]'s and [[analysisphallus]] of , he emphasises that the phrase "''Glanz auf der Nase''" as support for his argument.<ref>{{F}}. (1927e) "Fetishism", [[SEfetishism|fetish]] XXIis a substitute for the latter, 149</ref>not the former.

In the following years, as ==Disavowal==[[Lacan]] develops his distinction between also extends the mechanism of [[penisdisavowal]] and , making it the operation constitutive of [[phallusperversion]]itself, he emphasises that and not just of the [[fetishfetishism|fetishistic]] [[perversion]] is a substitute for the latter, not the former.

==Male Perversion==However, he retains [[LacanFreud]] also extends the mechanism of 's view that [[disavowalfetishism]], making it the operation constitutive of is an exclusively [[perversionmale]] itself, and not just of the [[fetishisticperversion]] ,<ref>{{Ec}} p. 734</ref> or at least extremely rare among [[perversionwomen]]. <ref>{{S4}} p.154</ref>

However==Phobic Object==In the [[seminar]] of 1956-7, he retains [[FreudLacan]] elaborates an important distinction between the [[fetishism|fetish]] [[object]] and the [[phobic]] [[object]]; whereas the [[fetish]] is a [[fetishism|symbolic]] substitute for the [[mother]]'s view that [[fetishismlack|missing]] [[phallus]], the [[phobia|phobic]] [[object]] is an exclusively [[maleimaginary]] substitute for [[perversionsymbolic]],<ref>{{Ec}} 734</ref> or at least extremely rare among [[womencastration]].<ref>{{S4}} p.154</ref>

In the ==Preoedipal Triangle==Like all [[seminarperversion]] of 1956-7s, [[Lacanfetishism]] elaborates an important distinction between is rooted in the [[fetishpreoedipal]] [[objectstructure|triangle]] and the [[phobic]] [[object]]; whereas the [[fetish]] is a [[symbolic]] substitute for the of [[mother]]'s -[[lack|missingchild]] -[[phallus]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 84-5, the [[phobia|phobic]] [[object]] is an [[imaginary]] substitute for [[symbolic]] [[castration]]. 194</ref>

Like all However, it is unique in that it involves both [[perversionidentification]]s, with [[fetishismmother]] is rooted in and with the [[preoedipalimaginary]] [[structure|trianglephallus]] of ; indeed, in [[motherfetishism]]-, the [[childsubject]]-oscillates between these two [[phallusidentification]]s.<ref>{{S4}} p.84-586, 194160</ref>

However, it is unique in that it involves both ==Women==[[identificationLacan]] with [[mother]] and with the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]]; indeed's statement, in [[fetishism]]1958, that the [[subjectpenis]] oscillates between these two [[identification]]s"takes on the value of a fetish" for heterosexual women raises a number of interesting questions.<ref>{{S4E}} p.86, 160290</ref>

Firstly, it reverses [[LacanFreud]]'s statementviews on [[fetishism]]; rather than the [[fetishism|fetish]] being a [[symbolic]] substitute for the [[real]] [[penis]], in 1958, that the [[real]] [[penis]] "takes on the value of may itself become a [[fetishism|fetish" for heterosexual women raises a number of interesting questions.<ref>{{E}} p]] by substituting the [[woman]]'s [[absent]] [[symbolic]] [[phallus]].290</ref>

FirstlySecondly, it reverses undermines the claims (made by both [[Freud]]'s views on and [[fetishismLacan]]; rather than the ) that [[fetishfetishism]] being a is extremely rare among [[symbolicwomen]] substitute for ; if the [[real]] [[penis]], the [[real]] [[penis]] may itself become can be considered a [[fetishism|fetish]] by substituting the , then [[womanfetishism]]'s is clearly far more prevalent among [[absent]] [[symbolicwomen]] than among [[phallusmen]].

Secondly, it undermines the claims (made by both ==See Also=={{See}}* [[FreudCastration]] and * [[LacanDisavowal]]) that ||* [[fetishismImaginary]] is extremely rare among * [[womenLack]]; if the ||* [[penisMother]] can be considered a * [[fetishPerversion]], then ||* [[fetishismPhallus]] is clearly far more prevalent among * [[womenPhobia]] than among ||* [[menSymbolic]].* [[Woman]]{{Also}}