Fetishism

One final video drives the point of how gender and sex are ingrained in society when a young boy (roughly 10 years old) compares the fandom with gay subculture, illustrating how constructions of gender have been modeled for him. Bussey and Bandura suggest, “A great deal of gender-linked information is exemplified by models in one’s immediate environment such as parents and peers, and significant persons in social, educational, and occupational contexts.” His experiences with social…

I enjoyed reading this novel very much. It was happier compared to other stories we have read this semester. When I had finished a majority of the book I was very confused as to why this was assigned to us. This book seemed outdated and I doubt I will have clients who are from this era. Footbinding is a very old custom that is no longer practiced; there may be one or two women who are still alive with bound feet. Also, the setting of this book was in the 1800s, China’s culture is significantly…

Are you a first time mother? So, at last you have delivered a healthy baby. After the nine months of pregnancy, now it is the time to bring your healthy new born home. From this moment child care starts. The time you bring your new born home is also a start of your life in purgatory. At this time you have to deal with the most important task you could ever do in your life to take the best child care for your new born. Child care is not an easy task. Everything you are going to can greatly…

Michel Taussing in The Devil and Commodity Fetishism views the peasant’s opposition in South America against the market production as the confrontation between use-value and exchange value production systems. Peasants in the rural areas of Bolivia and Colombia believe that becoming a labor for production is same as making the deal with the devil, “the contract that is said to have baneful consequences for capital and human life”: the land might become barren and the person entering the contract…

Consciousness, this reification is “crucial for the subjugation of men’s consciousness” (Lukacs 1923). Reification essentially objectifies and reduces human beings to things. This concept of reification is directly linked to Marx’s ideas about commodity fetishism. Capitalist exfoliation establishes the workers and products of their labor as objects. It is further developed in human relations as people are unable to see themselves in relation with others; thus, human relationships are also…

Does the word ‘phallus’ refer to the same concept in the writings of both Freud and Lacan? Does Freud’s “substitute for the woman’s penis” (Freud “Fetishism” 842) correlate with Lacan’s “privileged signifier?” (Lacan “Signification” 1187). In The Signification of the Phallus Lacan writes: “it is Freud’s discovery that gives to the signifier / signified opposition the full extent of implications,” crediting Freud with Lacan’s discovery of the phallus as a “privileged signifier” (Lacan…

also a sense of distress and unable to control the sexual desires within these individuals. In general, there are six types of paraphilia behaviour which are fetishism, sexual masochism, exhibitionism, pedophiles, sexual sadism and voyeurism (refer to Figure 1 in Appendix 1). The first type of paraphilia behaviour is fetishism. Fetishism is involving the use of non-living objects in order to reach the sexual gratification…

included. While some argue that alienation exist in all societies, Marx emphasises capitalist alienation effect on body and mind - exploited individuals develop lust for commodities to extinguish feelings of alienation (Ibid, 51). Hence, Commodity Fetishism, a theory that suggests social, human relations are magically…

My argument is that Oscar is a twelve year old who is not yet sexual and so his watch is more of an innocent gaze or rather a curious gaze, but the audience sexualizes the scene. For my explanations I will be using the theories of voyeurism and fetishism that Laura Mulvey presents in her article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. ( M, L. 1989). Voyeurism according to my understanding is the when you watching someone like an object or image and feeling guilty in the pleasure of watching.…

owners), and the necessities produced to survive (Appelrouth & Edles 2016: 28). Marx blames capitalism for alienating workers from their species being, thus contributing to the lack of class-consciousness that is further intensified with commodity fetishism. In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, Marx asserts that alienation is deeply rooted in capitalism.…