He mentions various examples offetichistic superstitions in Rome.
Long after the brutish stage of thought is past the fetichistic instinct remains in the sacredness attached to the mere letter or paper or parchment of the sacred book or writing, when used as amulet, plaster or medicine.
The civilized Japanese, having passed far beyond the Aino's stage of religion, still show their fetichistic instincts in the veneration accorded to priestly inventions for raising revenue.
It gives us an intelligible genesis of fetichistic conceptions in general.
Fetichistic practices also form part of the outer worship of Lamaite Buddhism and Taoism, and they are not only tolerated but prescribed by other universal religions.
Such a connection is especially seen in cases with only fetichistic determinations of the sexual object.
Another contribution to the explanation of the fetichistic preference of the foot is found in the Infantile Sexual Theories (see later).
It is scarcely necessary to remark that an admiration for the nates, even when reaching a fetichistic degree, by no means necessarily involves, even after many years, any attraction to the excreta.
Some children develop an almost fetichistic propensity to pull or later to stroke the hair or beard of every one with whom they come in contact.
When, as is most commonly the case, it is the process of urination and not the urine itself which is attractive, we are clearly concerned with a symbolism of act and not with the fetichistic attraction of an excretion.
It may be instructive to bring forward another case in which no fetichistic feeling toward an object can be traced, but an erotic symbolism still clearly exists.
Such a fetichistic perversion is strictly analogous to the fetichism by which women's handkerchiefs, aprons or underlinen become capable of affording sexual gratification.
In a case which has been communicated to me there was, on the other hand, an olfactory fetichistic attraction to the excreta even in the absence of the person.
The symbolic sexual significance of urolagnia has hitherto usually been confused with the fetichistic and mainly olfactory perversion by which the excretion itself becomes a source of sexual excitement.
In other cases of fetichism which I have had under observation, the abnormal fetichistictendency went much further back.
Masochistic, sadistic, fetichistic excitations of all kinds are met with, and sexual inclination towards animals is by no means rare.
All kinds of fetichistic sentiments are also met with even in childhood.
The transition from fetichistic to polytheistic conceptions of cure is, of course, a gradual one.
It never affected her conduct or led to fetichistic habits.
In many, although not all, of those cases in which articles of women's clothing become the object of fetichistic attraction, there is certainly an olfactory element due to the personal odor attaching to the garments.
Indeed, when the fetichistic tendency led the Greek again to personify the powers of nature, he had recourse to new names formed from his own language.
Thus far the course of fetichisticthought which we have traced out, with Mr. Tylor's aid, is such as is not always obvious to the modern inquirer without considerable concrete illustration.
The worship of ancestors seems to have been every where the oldest systematized form of fetichistic religion.
Indeed, the maxim nil mortuis nisi bonum had most likely at one time a fetichistic flavour.
Such a fact as this is quite in harmony with Auguste Comte's suggestion that such intelligent animals as dogs, apes, and elephants may be capable of forming a few fetichistic notions.
In fetichistic thought, the name is an entity mysteriously associated with its owner, and it is not well to run the risk of its getting into hostile hands.
More worthy of serious attention is August Comte's suggestion that dogs and some other animals are perhaps capable of forming fetichistic notions.
Indeed in the majority of cases where these wells are now resorted to by the peasantry for any other than curative purposes, the fetichisticimpulse is much more conspicuous than any influence associated with religious teaching.
Comte's opinion that fetichistic conceptions are formed by the higher animals, relates the following observation concerning a retriever who had learned for herself to perform an 'act of propitiation.
The potency of many charms is of this nature, while others have a fetichistic significance, i.
Some kindred state of mind it is which, I believe, prompts the savage to certain fetichistic observances.
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