fetichism

• “Binet and also Krafft-Ebing [64] have argued in effect that the whole of sexual selection is a matter of fetichism, that is to say, of erotic symbolism of object.”

  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy

• “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

• “The worship of stones is a kind of fetichism, which in the very infancy of religion prevailed, perhaps, more extensively than any other form of religious culture.”

  The Symbolism of Freemasonry

• “The anthropologist calls it "fetichism" when he finds it among primitive peoples.”

  By the Christmas Fire

• “This astrolatry, originally a kind of fetichism, became nature-worship, and gradually rose to the worship of the intelligence manifested to our contemplation in the movement of the heavenly luminaries.”

  A Comparative View of Religions

• “We see Jesus here intentionally diverting attention from all kinds of magic, every kind of fetichism, everything carnal in religion.”

  The Miracles of Jesus

• “What we call "fetichism" is, I suppose, merely the childish way of looking at and explaining the world, which did not, in the case of the people of West Africa, preclude a belief in the one true God, although He was regarded by them as far away and not interested in the little affairs of men.”

  The Religious Life of the Negro.

• “It may be noted that in the very typical case of foot-fetichism which is presented to us in the person of Restif de la”

  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy

• “The word "fetichism" came into the European languages through the work of Charles de Brosses, who, in”

  The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji

• “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

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