fetishism

light bulb joke

tantric sex

doctor

healthcare

health insurance

pornography

kinkiness

US healthcare system

role-playing

sadomasochism

wedding ring

ring

bondage (sex)

eroticism

fetish

Darth Vader

dog owner

walking the dog

body shaming

sexuality

appearances

orgasm

martial arts

BDSM

choking

is belief which is practiced not directly, but only through another. The leftist academic pursues his well-paid carrier while using an idealized other (like cuba, nicaragua, tito's yugoslavia) as the stuff of their ideological fantasy.

The second is that we believe, not directly, but only through another (again, the question of cynicism). One distinctively modem form this takes is what Zizek calls 'interpassive leftism', in which the Western (often academic) Left idealizes the lives of people under Communism as embodying their own inner beliefs: 'what these leftist displace on to the Other is not a specific kind of activity, but their passive authentic experience. They allow themselves to pursue their well-paid academic careers in the West, while using an idealized Other (like Cuba, Nicaragua, Tito's Yugoslavia) as the stuff of their ideological fantasy: they dream through the Other, and rage against it if it in any way disturbs their complacency' (45).

is not a subjective illusion but is embodied in material practices. It is not a matter of us directly believing in the magical properties of something like money, but rather of us behaving in our social interactions as though we do.

Zizek will emphasize two things in particular with regard to this fetish: the first is that it is not a subjective illusion but is embodied in material practices, and for this reason it works despite or, indeed, through our apparent distance from it (the problem of 'cynicism' in contemporary societies). Thus it is not a matter of us directly believing in the magical properties of something like money, but rather of us behaving in our social interactions as though we do: 'the fetishist illusion resides in our real social life, not in our perception of it a bourgeois subject knows very well that there is nothing magic about money, that money is just an object which stands for a set of social relations, but he nevertheless acts in real life as if he believed that money is a magical thing' (254-5).

is the consideration of a made thing in a way that forgets or overlooks the fact that the item is a product of human labor.

To briefly restate Marx's concept, fetishism of the commodity is the regard of a product as divorced from its production. That is, it forgets the origin of an item as the product of human and labor and instead reifies it as an autonomous object, thus providing it with an agency that it does not actually possess.'

is the idea that there are relations between people behind relations between things.

The everyday spontaneous ideology reduces money to a simple sign giving the individual possessing it a right to a certain part of the social product. So, on an everyday level, the individuals know very well that there are relations between people behind the relations between things' (Zizek 1989 : 31)

is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics and music, masculine in nature. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egoism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

fetishism, n.Definitions

fetishism