Cultures of Fetishism (45 page)

see also
Japan

Asimov, Isaac, 156, 164
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Asphalt Jungle, The
(film) character in: Angela

Atlas, James,

author of
Bellow
, 106

editor of brief biography series, 106 Auschwitz, 171

automaton, 69, 152, 154, 175, 179

autopoiesis
, 162

see also
Maturana, Varela autopoietic fantasy, 167

autopoietic machine, 166

Baby Einstein CD, 3 variations of, 180–3

Baby Galileo, 180–1

Baby Newton, 180

Genius Baby, 180 Mozart and friends, 180 Bach and friends, 180 Brainy Baby, 180–1

Barboza, David, 144–5 Barlow, John Perry, 176

bats and birds in Marx’s writings, 132–3

see also
vampires Bauer, Bruno, 134–5

Ben Sira, (Jeremiah’s son), 155, 171

Bergmann, Martin, 119

bestiality, 7

Bikini
, part two,
Three Tales
, 160 Bikini atoll, 160

birth control, anti, 177 Bion, Wilfred, 121–3

blacksmith, 143

see
“Working Day”

Blahnik, Manolo, 3, 4, 10 (and Manolo,

139)

“Blood of God,” 32 Bloom, Harold, 4 body:

fantasies about, 74

image, 74 interpretations of bodily

transformations, 72

mutilations of, 20, 71–3

see also
adolescence, Grosz, Lingis Body, parts of:

internal organs, 74, 77, 172

nervous system, 74, 172

sense organs, 74

fluids i.e. menstrual blood, tears, 74–5, 77, 178

detachable parts i.e. breath, nails, sperm, urine, etc; 75

see also
skin, Mobius strip Bonaparte, Louis, (Napoleon III), 136 borderline personality, 122–3 Breazeal, Cynthia (
Designing Sociable

Robots
), 160, 166 creator of Kismet, 160

maternal relationship to Kismet, 160 belief in
anima machina
, 160 Robotic Life Group, 166

see
Kismet

Brenner, Charles, 120–2

Brooks, David, 4

Brooks, Rodney (
Flesh and Machines
), 157, 158, 160, 162–4, 166,

169–71, 182

Broullliet, Andre, 51

Burns, Mary (Engels’ mistress), 136

Burnett, Mark, 149–51

Bushido
(book on tattooing), 82 Bushido (tattoo technique)

see also
Samurai,
Hikae, gaman, mono no aware, sensei

Bushomics, 13, 37, 177

see also
Reaganomics

Caballah (in psychoanalytic doctrine), 117

calligraphy, 84–9

Calvino, Italo, 103

Calvino, Judith, 103 Campbell, John W., 156

Astounding Stories
, 156

Inventor of three ethical rules for robots, 156

Capek, Karel, (
Rossum’s Universal Robots (RUR)
, 155

Carbon (element), 169, 185, 186

as compared with Silicon, 171–3, 185 “Carbon,” (story by Primo Levi), 172,

185–6

Carjaval, Doreen, 181

castration, 15, 22, 25

anxiety, 16

fetish as memorial to, 16

Freud’s surgeries experienced as, 20, 23–4

Freud’s grandson’s death experienced as, 20, 23–4

Freud’s misperceptions of female genitals, 15–16

male horror of female genitals, 15–6, 20

cell-phone, 175

certainty/uncertainty (second principle of fetishism strategy), 6, 14, 115,

122–3, 189

see also
Negative Capability chador, 32

Charcot, Jean Martin, 51–2, 59, 63

child labor, 142–3, 146–7

in developing countries, 147 childhood

adult recollection of, 187–88 idealized versions of, 187–88 loss of innocence, 91 consumerism and, 127, 179

technology and, 180–2 China

Ancient, twenty-first century B.C., 36

fourteenth-seventeenth centuries (Ming Dynasty), 36

seventeenth-twentieth centuries (Qing Dynasty), 36

twentieth century, 39;
see also

neo-Confucianism,
li, yu,

Zhu Xi

twenty-first century, 144–5:

Communist Capitalists, 146; gaming factories, 144; Haier Corporation, 145; Land of Giant Megamalls, 146; millionaires in, 145; threat to U.S. Economy, 145–6; yuan vs. dollar, 145–6;
see also
Race to the bottom, race to the top, surplus labor,
Winner Takes All

Choo, Jimmy, 10

Chronos, 25

Clift, Montgomery (
The Misfits
), 56 Clitoris, 16, 20, 29

as
real
small penis, 29, 33, 43

cloning, 160

computer, 84, 173, 175, 183

as “hearth” of the information age, 179

coarse-cutter, 76, 80

commodity, 139

as fetish, 139

Commodity Fetishism, 5, 6, 127, 129,

131–3, 133n, 138–9, 147, 183

see also
surplus labor, vampire principle, “Working Day”

commodification of humans, 5, 148

On Reality TV, 5, 148–53

compromise formation, 120–2, 126

see also
Brenner

conflict-free ego sphere, 118–19 consumerism, 127–9

Cotton, Joseph (
Niagara
), 54 countertransference, 96n

in biography, 96, 112, 125

see also
transference creativity, 114–15, 137, 189

sparks of, 114, 116, 137, 189

snuffing out, 116, 137, 189 expressing, 115–16;
see also

Kernberg Crawford, Joan, 55

cruelty, 177–8

Cruise, Tom (
Eyes Wide Shut)
, 61 cunt, 123

Cyborg, 196

David (android) in film,
Artificial Intelligence
, 162

Davis, Geena, (
Thelma and Louise
), 59 Death drive (Death Instinct), 8, 9,

15, 20

tinted in erotic color, 8, 9, 15 (fifth principle of fetishism strategy)

see also
Thanatos

Delicate self-cutter, 76–9, 178 act of cutting, 76–7 childhood experience of, 78 identification with mother, 79 menstrual tension, relief from,

78, 178

verbalizations of, 78–9 Denby, David, review of film

Thirteen
, 69

depth/surface in psychoanalysis, 108–9, 128

Deresiewicz, William, review

Gore Vidal
, 103

dermis, 81

biological structure of, 74, 80–1

see also
epidermis, tattooing

Derrida, Jacques, 8, 39, 93, 95, 108,
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113–14

Desire, 124

as suspended excitement, 124 Destruction, 20, 24–5

of world, 86, 91, 178, 187–8

Dialectics, 134

dialectical materialism, 134 Marx’s law of motion, 137

Ollman’s explanation of, 137n., 138 dialogue, human, 14, 180–1, 184

see also
mother-infant dialogue Di Maggio, Joe, 55, 188

Dimen, Muriel, 124, 190

Disavowal, 27, 178, 186

as contrasted with repression, 27, 186 Dolly (cloned sheep), 160

Dolly
third tale of
Three Tales
, 159 Doi, Toshida, 164–5

see also
Aibo “Dream Story,”64–7

see also Eyes Wide Shut
, Schnitzler,

Traumnovelle

Dutch Protestant Culture, seventeenth century, 12, 13, 37

see also
Foster, Pronk

Edel, Leon

archives, fear of, 199, 101

biography of Henry James, 95, 100–1

lecture to psychoanalysts, 95, 108–9 transference, fear of, 96–9

tribute to biography, 98, 172, 190

see also
Maurois, Schorer, Strachey, Woolf

Eder, Richard, review of
Gore Vidal
, 101, 103

Ego, 118

Ego autonomy, 118

Ego psychology, 118–19, 123, 125

see also
Hartmann

Endurance
(Japanese
Fear Factor
), 151

En mal d’archive
(Archive Fever), 93, 108

Engels, Frederich, 134–42 “Conditions of the Working Class in

England,” 135, 142

cites Hegel, 136, 189

handwriting, contrast with Marx, 135

personality, contrast with Marx, 134–5

relationship to Marx, 134–7

writing style, contrast with Marx, 135–6

funeral oration to Marx, 136 epidermis, 74, 80–1

see also
dermis, skin, tattooiing erection, 7

Erikson, Erik, 72–3

see also
hunter-gatherers Ernie, (
Sesame Street
), 181 Eros, 20, 75, 189

erotic, 6, 7, 15, 24, 75–6,

187–8

eroticism, 20

erotogenic, 74–5

estrogen, 77

eukaryotic (cell), 167
see also autopoiesis
Extropianism, 168–9

Extropy Institute, 168

see also
Vita-More, Primo

Eyes Wide Shut
(film), 61–8, 90 characters in: Harwood, Alice;

Harwood, Helena; Harwood, William (Bill); Mandy aka Amada Currin; Szavost, Sandor; Ziegler, Victor;

see also
Schnitzler, “Dream Story”

“eyes wide shut,” (defense), 129, 143

father, son’s reaction to death of, 27

see also
disavowal father-son bonding, 29

Fascism, 183

Fashion fetishism, 3, 10, 183

Fear Factor
, 150–1, 159

Female Perversions; TheTemptations of Emma Bovary
, 68

Female Perversions
(film), 49, 68

characters in: Eve; Edwina Fenichel, Otto, 132

fetish

derivation of word, 2 invention of in childhood, 26

substitute for penis, 26

memorial to horror of castration, 16 Fetishes

athletic supporter, 16, 28 Birth and station, (Dreiser), 4

braid cutting (coupeur des nattes), 16, 19, 33

Candor, 4, 8

Discipline in German military, (Russell), 4

primitive, 5

religious, 13

Typical (corset, fur, etc;), 2, 3, 4, 7,

28

see also
Blahnik, Manolo, fashion, footbinding, stiletto

Fetishism, (general) definition, 1, 68 Fetishism (commodity),

secret of, 133

relationship to consumerism, 127–9 vampire principle, 133, 146

see also
Marx, surplus value fetishism (sexual), 6

as perversion, 10, 12, 25

aggression regulated by, 8, 16 anxiety regulated by, 76 childhood origins, 26 identification with father, 29

as contrasted with fetishism strategy, 1–9, 14, 76–7

fetishism, cultural discourse of,
see

Foster

fetishism, strategy of, 1–10, 12, 25, 53,

62, 111, 183

destruction and, 8, 9, 15

Eros and, 5, 15, 20, 189 principles of:

machine-human exchange, surplus value, 5, 6, 93, 131, 139, 147,

149–53, 157–8

Certainty, 6;
see also

Certainty/Uncertainty Foreground-background, 6, 53,

125–6, 128

necrophilic, 8, 11, 15, 137, 139,

157, 168

Death drive tinted in erotic colors, 62, 94, 168, 179

surplus value and, 6, 131, 139

Fish, Stanley

critique of biography, 103–4 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 104 flogging of tattooed skin, 89

see also
Skin Museum footbinding, 12, 33, 37–50

binding techniques, 40–2

effects on bodily organs, 11, 42, 42n effects on body posture, 11, 42

mother-daughter bonding, 38

My Beloved and Terrible Lotus
, by A-Hsui, 9, 39–28, 185;
see also
writing on the skin, nu shu;

see also
names of bound feet under Lotus

Foster, Hal, 12–14, 177 fetishism, discourse of, 12–4

seventeenth-century Dutch Protestant culture, 12–13, 37, 177

Freud’s theory of castration, 13 lack and abundance, 13

Pronk (
Pronken
), 12–13, 37,

177, 179

Reaganomics, 13

free association, 112–3, 15, 117, 122

Freud, Anna, 19

Freud, Sigmund, 6

personal catastrophes: cancer, 17–19; death of grandson, Heinerle, 17; death of daughter, Sophie, 17; prosthetic devices, 17–19;

surgeries, 17–19

Views on: analytic process, 115–16, 118; distinctions between the sexes, 16, 21, 25; female body,

15–6, 29–31; female sexuality,

22–3; castration, 15–16 Writings: “Analysis terminable and

interminable,” 30–1; “An autobiographical study,” postscript to, 21;
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
, 20, 136;
The

Ego and the Id
, 27, 120;

“Fetishism,” 9, 15–25, 26–30,

111, 178; “Three essays on the theory of sexuality,” 23; “Some psychical consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes,” 21

Freud, Sigmund––
continued
Letters to: Abraham, Karl, 20;
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Binswanger, Ludwig, 17; Eitingon, Max, 18; Rie, Oscar, 18; Salome, Lou-Andreas, 20, 24

Gable, Clark (
The Misfits
), 56

gaman
, 82

Gay, Peter, 22–3

Gibson, Mel (
The Passion of the Christ
), 178

globalization, 143

Gouley, Kathleen Kiely, 181–2 greed, 142, 179

Green, Andre, 118–19, 122–3 Greenaway, Peter (
The Pillow Book
),

84–91, 186

Greene, Francis, 102

Greene, Graham, biography of, 102

see also
Sherry, Norman, Smith Dinitia Grossman, William, 117

Grosz, Elizabeth, 15, 83, difference

with Lingis, 83

HATE, 79

Halberstadt, Heinz (Heinerle), death of, 17–18

hand poke

see also
Bushido, 82 Hartmann, Heinz, 118–19
Hartmann Era, The
, 119

Hegel, George Wilhelm Frederich, 136, 189

hikae
, 82

Hindenberg (dirigible), 168

Hindenberg
, first tale of
Three Tales
, 168