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excessive or irrational devotion to some activity
made a fetish of cleanliness - a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
How To Use fetich In A Sentence
- Sometimes the odor of the armpit may even become a kind of fetich which is craved for its own sake and in itself suffices to give pleasure. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
- It is to the extreme individualization involved by the developments of erotic symbolism that the fetichist owes his morbid and perilous isolation. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
- Even here, therefore, there is really what may fairly be regarded as a congenital element; and, moreover, there is reason to believe that the erotic fetichist usually displays the further congenital element of hereditary neurosis. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
- This is the new Lynch, with his fetiches in place, who has evolved the mysteries he dreams up in a storytelling gambit that pays off.
- Thus, in the homosexual male, erection occurs at the sight or remembrance of a man; in the fetichist, the idea of the fetich is operative -- in the case of the body-linen fetichist, for instance, the idea of articles of underclothing. The Sexual Life of the Child
- We may perhaps connect with this phenomenon the attraction which muddy shoes often exert over the shoe-fetichist, and the curious way in which, as we have seen (p. 18), Restif de la Bretonne associates his love of neatness in women with his attraction to the feet, the part, he remarks, least easy to keep clean. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
- The only rational thing for the twentieth-century folk to do is to cover up the well; to make the twentieth century in truth the twentieth century, and to relegate to the nineteenth century and all the preceding centuries the things of those centuries, the witch-burnings, the intolerances, the fetiches, and, not least among such barbarisms. Chapter 16
- It is this philosophy, currently known as fetichism, but treated by Mr. Tylor under the somewhat more comprehensive name of "animism," which we must now consider in a few of its most conspicuous exemplifications. Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
- But they do not connect this kind of fetichism with their poetry; and even their greatest poets, with the exception of Dante, have shown no capacity or no inclination for enhancing the imaginative effect of their creations by an appeal to the instinct of mysterious awe. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
- I think that one of this trend launcher was Romain Slocombe, a french fetichist writer/photographer/drawer/movie maker, who has a crush for Japan. Latest Japanese Craze: Bandage Fetish