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fetishism|ˈfɛtɪʃɪz(ə)m|
Also fetichism.
[f. fetish + -ism. Cf. Fr. fétichisme.]
1. a. The worship of fetishes; an instance of this; the superstition of which this is the characteristic feature.
1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. II. 646 He detects everywhere fetishism or the worship of tools. 1846Grote Greece i. xvi. I. 462 An original fetichism in which particular objects had themselves been supposed to be endued with life. 1853Kingsley Hypatia xxx. 382 Dabbling in magic, astrology, and barbarian fetichisms.
b. Econ. (See commodity fetishism.)
2. Psychol. A perversion of the sexual instinct, often resulting from earlier repression, whereby sexual desire is stimulated by, or has as its goal, some kind of inanimate object (often shoes, rubber, or underclothes), or a particular non-sexual part of the body (feet, hair, etc.), or the performance of certain non-sexual actions.
1897H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex I. vi. 129 The view that sexual inversion is..explained by..early association..seems to be supported by what we know of erotic fetishism, by which a woman's hair, or foot, or even clothing, becomes the focus of a man's sexual aspirations. 1954Dorcus & Shaffer Textbk. Abnormal Psychol. (ed. 4) vii. 262 Fetishism is considered by some theorists to be a defense against fear of being rejected by a member of the opposite sex, hence the substitution of an object that cannot reject or a part of the body against which there is no prohibition. 1963A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 66 Fetishism involves the focussing of sexual attention upon an object or upon one part of the loved-one, instead of upon the whole person. |