A certain degree of such fetichism therefore regularly belong to the normal, especially during those stages of wooing when the normal sexual aim seems inaccessible or its realization deferred.
Theological theory as to the cause of disease Influence of self-interest on "pastoral medicine" Development of fetichism at Cologne and elsewhere Other developments of fetich cure V.
Nowhere, perhaps, in Europe can the philosophy of this development of fetichism be better studied to-day than at Cologne.
As to the recourse to fetichism in Italy in time of plague, and the pictures showing the intercession of Januarius and other saints, I have relied on my own notes made at various visits to Naples.
From this idea was evolved that fetichism which we shall see for ages standing in the way of medical science.
As far as Fetichism reached, and as long as it lasted, there was no abstraction, or classification of objects, and no room consequently for the metaphysical mode of thought.
From our present stand-point, it becomes manifest that Fetichism is not primary but secondary.
Another indirect verification is that we thus get a clear conception of Fetichism in general.
This anthropomorphic God, polyphyletically evolved by the different races, assumes an infinity of shapes in their imagination, from fetichism to the refined monotheistic religions of the present day.
The grossest fetichism has more of religion in it than either of them can consistently claim on scientific grounds.
Where fetichismor polytheism prevails, you cannot have science with its pursuit of general laws.
And I think that passage in Wilson on Fetichism superb where he says that the sight of the splendid sky first created the religious sense.
The boundary line between idolatry andfetichism is, however, often difficult to define exactly.
To-day the fetichism of Auguste Comte is the animism of English ethnographers, of which true fetichismforms only a part.
Max Müller is equally critical in his attitude toward positivists, who regard fetichism as the primitive religion, and toward the orthodox, who find in monotheism the natural uncorrupted type of religion.
From a different point of view Herbert Spencer also, in his “Sociology,” has criticised theories which regard fetichism or naturism as the principle of religion.
The marriage of positive science and blind sentiment cannot produce religion; the attempt to return to fetichism is an attempt to foist the religion of a savage upon the most civilized of mankind.
This definition of fetichism is quite special, and in no wise concerns primitive fetichism, conceived as an ascription of something analogous to the human will in all inanimate things.
Müller and Spencer are agreed that fetichism is one of the later forms of religion, and decline to treat it as primitive.
Sidenote: Criticism of fetichismcommonly a play on words.
In the first place, it is a matter of extreme difficulty to perceive any radical difference between naturistic fetichism and polytheism.
And he would be right if the partisans of primitive fetichism understood by fetich, as he does, a material object at the heart of which the adorer imagines the existence of a mysterious agent distinct from this object itself.
Another classification, not less open to suspicion than that of Von Hartmann, is the celebrated Comtist progression from fetichism to polytheism and from polytheism to monism.
It is plain enough, however, that a tolerably distinct element of fetichism underlies much of the Indian mythology.
That this is the origin of some phases of fetichism there can be no doubt; that it is the origin of all religions, or even the only method by which animal and plant worship originates, I do not believe.
In considering such cases mythologically, it will be necessary to examine the facts to see whether we have to deal with simple fetichism or with idolatry.
Fetichism seems to be the physical philosophy of man in his most primitive state.
Putting aside all the difficulties which involve the question whether fetichism is rightly regarded as the first attitude of man towards nature, it is clear that the fetichistic hypothesis cannot cover the whole field of our inquiry.
Strictly speaking, fetichism can never explain the problem of the mythopoeic faculty, except in so far as we may assume it to have formed a necessary stage of human development anterior to polytheism.
This fetichism seems to have arisen from the relationships heretofore alluded to, and to be founded on the myths which have been invented to account for those relationships.
The first step in Mr. Max Muller's polemic was the assertion that Fetichism is nowhere unmixed.
When he masses all these worships together, and proposes to call them all Fetichism (a term derived from the Portuguese word for a talisman), De Brosses is distinctly unscientific.
If the race whose noblest and oldest extant hymns were pure, exhibits traces of fetichism in its later documents, may not that as easily result from a recrudescence as from a corruption?
And just as rough stone knives are earlier than iron ones (though the same race often uses both), so fetichism is more primitive than higher and purer faiths, though the same race often combines fetichism and theism.
Let us now examine, as shortly as possible, Mr. Max Muller's reasons for denying that fetichism is 'a primitive form of religion.
It remains true, however, that certain elements of savage practice, fetichism being one of them, are practically ubiquitous.
We only claim for the powerful and ubiquitous practices of fetichism a place among the early elements of religion, and insist that what is so universal has not yet been shown to be 'a corruption' of something older and purer.
Mr. Muller then goes on to prove that 'no religion consists of fetichism only,' choosing his examples of higher elements in negro religion from the collections of Waitz.
Others, again, think that fetichism is 'a corruption of religion, in Africa, as elsewhere.
According to Pausanias, thisfetichism (if fetichism it is) was primary, in Greece.
Thus we need not be convinced by Mr. Max Muller that fetichism (though it necessarily has its antecedents in the human mind) is 'a corruption of religion.
J] [Footnote H: Sometimes Fetichism furnished a legend which Catholicism, in its best estate, would not despise.
But what a history lies between the Fetichism which is the mental form of African religious sentiment, and the worship of one God without image or symbol!
It has gradually displaced, to a great extent, the fetichism and polytheism of earlier times.
The fetichism of Christ's ancestors reappeared in the image worship of his devotees.
It was connected with demonism and fetichism which had taken possession of the Christian church in the ninth and tenth centuries.
Shoe fetichism is more common than that of clothes or handkerchiefs.
A masked form of fetichism forms part of the normal sexual appetite, in the sense that certain parts of the body or clothes, certain odors, etc.
Other perversions, such as sadism, masochism, fetichism and exhibitionism, etc.
In many religions fetichism plays an important part, so much so that fetiches such as amulets or relics produce ecstasy in the faithful.
Sexual hyperæsthesia manifests itself by desires excited by every sensorial perception relating to the opposite sex, or simply by objects which recall it to the imagination; so thatfetichism plays a great part in this condition.
Krafft-Ebing describes, as masked masochism, certain cases of fetichism in which the nature of the fetich which causes sexual excitation and the manner in which it is used prove a desire for maltreatment and humiliation by a woman.
The ignorance and degradation of fetichism are His, as well as the highest revelations of spiritual truth.
Thus fetichism (in its highest form, astrolatry), polytheism, and monotheism are the stages in the development of the theological mode of thought.
Therefore, the analogy with erotic fetichism does not bring much help to those who argue that inversion is purely acquired.
But it must be remembered that what we see in erotic fetichism is merely the exaggeration of a normal impulse; every lover is to some extent excited by his mistress's hair, or foot, or clothing.
Fetichism may be observed in the infancy of many of the natural sciences.
Through the influence of the monks the military spirit declined; a vile fetichism of factitious relics, which were working miracles in all directions, constituted the individual piety.
Well, and even the lowest fetichism does that, according to Mr. Parker, whom you defend.
But even in the midst of enlightened science, and highly literate ages, errors fundamentally identical with those of Fetichism may and do exist, and with the very same results.
To the Semitic races belongs the honor of having reformed the ancient fetichism most thoroughly.
Besides this superstitious fetichism it involved ceremonies that were both sensual and ribald, including all the wild and mystic rites of the bacchanalia which the public authorities were to prohibit a few years later.
At the same time they were shocked by the coarseness of its fetichism and by the absurdity of its superstitions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fetichism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
