FETISHISM:
1. A form of sexual behaviour in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, activity, part of the body, etc: i.e. erotic fetishism, foot fetishism.
1.1 Excessive and irrational devotion or commitment to a particular thing: a critique of the new technological fetishism the fetishism of consumer goods.
2. Worship of an inanimate object for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit: the fetishism of Aboriginality. (Courtesy of: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/)
Fetishism means the religion of the fetish. The word fetish is derived through the Portuguese feitiço from the Latin factitius (facere, to do, or to make), signifying made by art, artificial (cf. Old English fetys in Chaucer). From facio are derived many words signifying idol, idolatory, or witchcraft. Later Latin hasfacturari, to bewitch, and factura, witchcraft. Hence Portuguese feitiço, Italian fatatura, O. Fr. faiture, meaning witchcraft, magic. The word was probably first applied to idols and amulets made by hand and supposed to possess magic power. In the early part of the sixteenth century, the Portuguese, exploring the West Coast of Africa, found the natives using small material objects in their religious worship. These they called feitiço, but the use of the term has never extended beyond the natives on the coast. Other names are bohsum, the tutelary fetishes of the Gold Coast; suhman, a term for a private fetish; gree-gree on the Liberian coast; monda in the Gabun country; bian among the cannibal Fang; in the Niger Delta ju-ju — possibly from the French joujou. i.e. a doll or toy (Kingsley) — and grou-grou, according to some of the same origin, according to others a native term, but the natives say that it is “a white man’s word”. Every Congo leader has his m’kissi; and in other tribes a word equivalent to “medicine” is used. (Courtesy of: http://www.newadvent.org/)
NOTES ON FETISHISM – DESIRE – COMMODITIES – CAPITALISM
AVANT-GARDE
CUBISM
PLANES / LIGHT / SHADE
CAPITALISM REMOVES CULTURE
MARX – DESIRE 4 COMMODITIES – SOCIAL RELATIONS IN MANUFACTURE???
FREUD = FUCKED
WOMAN WITH CLAWS (1937)
REPRESSION = SELLING POINT!!!
ABJECTION – LACAN’S “LAW OF THE FATHER”
DIFFERENTIATES FROM THE MOTHER
MIRROR STAGE – REFLECTION
REJECTION
DEATH..
I WANT – I DESIRE – I CRAVE – I NEED – I BEG – I PRAY – I IMPLORE – I BESEECH….
I’LL KEEP MY FETISHES TO MYSELF
AND LEAVE THEM TO YOUR
IMAGINATION!!!
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