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What does fetishism mean?

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Noun
  1. The belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.
  2. A form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body.
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The television programme has turned arts and antiquities into crude commodity fetishism.
He is for photography when it attacks the fetishism of the art object, but against it when it celebrates industrial production.
Our consumer society subjects many people's lives to the fetishism of the brand and the product.
Exclusively heterosexual, his imagery shows no sign of fetishism or sadomasochism, no unseemly interest in children.
Put simply, fetishism is when some body part or inorganic object is either needed to achieve the sexual aim or replaces it altogether.
No such distinction exists in fetishism, where object and spirit are one and the same, fused in an unmediated anti-symbolic relationship.

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