An Acceptable Abnormality?: Freud and the Riddle of Fetishism

Unravelling the Fetish: Freud and the Riddles of Desire

Long regarded as a marginal phenomenon, fetishism reshaped the foundations of psychoanalysis. By tracing the evolution of Freud's thinking on fetishism--from his early pathologisation to his later understanding of it as a source of sexual and psychic meaning--this book reveals how his attention to fetishism compelled him to rethink desire, object-choice, and the roots of inner conflict. In this book Ednei Soares, drawing on the influenc...