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Article: Fetishism and the limits of psychoanalysis.(Fantasies of Fetishism: From Decadence to the Post-Human)(Book review)
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FETISHISM AND THE LIMITS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Amanda Fernbach, Fantasies of Fetishism: From Decadence to the Post-Human, Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
Could Freud have ever imagined women strapping medical blood bags to their breasts in order to gain entry to exclusive nightspots? Amanda Fernbach suggests that it is the inability of classical psychoanalysis to adequately explain the multiplicity of fetishism that motivates her valuable new approach to the subject. Contemporary cultural texts such as fetish subcultures draw obvious attention to the critical shortfall that she suggests has always existed.
In contemporary western culture Fernbach ...