Cultures of fetishism / Louise J. Kaplan.
Explores the fetishism strategy, a psychological defense that aims to tame, subdue, and if necessary, murder human vitalities. Through an exploration of cultural phenomena, this work demonstrates how an understanding of the fetishism strategy can help to preserve the human dialogue that is the basis...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Permissions; One: Fetishism and the Fetishism Strategy; Two: Unraveling Freud on Fetishism; Three: Footbinding and the Cultures of Fetishism that Breed It; Four: The Body of a Woman: Making Films; Five: Writing on the Skin; Six: Archive Fever: Writing Lives; Seven: Unfree Associations: The Training of Psychoanalysts; Eight: The Fetishism of Commodities; Nine: Robots and Humans: Silicon and Carbon; Ten: Cultures of Fetishism; References and Notes; Index.