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| | Racial Fetishism |
 | | Commodity fetishism is a kind of double forgetting, first the capitalist forgets that he has projected life and value into a commodity in the ritual of exchange, and then the commodity veils itself in familiarity and triviality and becomes understood as a natural or self-evident form of social life. |
 | | Sigmund Freud, of course, is attributed with the classification of fetishism as the simultaneous disavowal and avowal of male castration. |
 | | Compared to the fetishized feminine portraits of over-dressed, over-laced, over-corseted European women, that seem to demonstrate the excess, frivolity, and performativity of the feminine masquerade, Orientalist genre portraits offered a slightly different kind of fantastic plenitude, and thus reveal a different kind of lack inherent in other bodies with which she is in dialog. |
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