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fetishism, fetichism Psychiatry. the compulsive use of some object or part of the body as a sexual stimulus, as a shoe, underclothes, a lock of hair, etc. — fetishist, fetichist, n. — fetishistic, fetichistic, adj. See also: Sex
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His examples, mostly of Western art and Western audiences, demonstrate how human bodies have been read as signs, and images (even abstract ones) have been treated fetishistically, as if they were human actors. The narrative spareness and ponderous tempo of Graham's film, however, remove the Rheinmetall from any such worldly associations: A series of lingering close-ups make it initially seem that the artist's sole aim was to pore fetishistically over every one of the machine's precisely tooled components. Thomson reports that seeing the leg-locks, thumb-screws and the like, "all fetishistically displayed in Turin's Museum of Fine Art, Levi felt disgusted. |
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