FETISH

Superb, in-depth survey explores animism, totemism, fetishism, creation myths,... 

Keep it clean. Work neatly. You don t have to make a fetish out of it, but try to be neat. Clean up spills. Turn off burners or water or electrical equipment when you re through with them. 

The Uric Acid Fetish Chemistry and Deviant Dietetics... 

Early twentieth century alarm over the presumed pathological effects of uric acid provoked considerable concern among both physicians and the public for controlling "uricacidemia" through diet and medication. Although finally discarded as merely a fetish, the uric acid scare is an impressive illustration of the impact of modern chemistry on popular, as well as medical thought. 

Miles, E. Collings, C. H. "The Uric Acid Fetish" Miles London, 1915. 

Once the initial diversity fetish had run its course and management realized that it was inefficient to attempt to span the entirety of chemical space in search of drugs, more rational approaches based on chemoinformatics were developed to design combinatorial libraries and select candidates for screening on the basis of properties that have proven to be associated with successful therapeutics in the past. 

Apter, Emily, and William Pietz, eds. Fetishism as Cultural Discourse. Ithaca, NY, and London Cornell University Press, 1993. 

Foster, Hal. The Art of Fetishism Notes on Dutch Still Life. In Apter and Pietz, Fetishism as Cultural Discourse, 251-65. 

Many writers make a fetish of enclosing discrete complex species in square brackets. This is often useful and sometimes essential. To give an... 

Into Navel Worshippers Mauve Has Navel Fetish... 

Soon all his sinews stretch out in an extraordinary fashion. An epileptic madness seizes him, during which, unconscious, he mouths words, which when heard by the initiated ones, have a prophetic meaning and prove that the fetish has entered him. 

Limp legs I first heard the French expression for this on the day that I went to a romantic rendezvous that needed to be discreet, to the Hotel de Beaux-Arts in Villefranche. When I returned to the lab, Jouvet said that I looked like I had lesjambes coupees - an expression used to describe one who is sexually exhausted. My excuse to Jouvet for leaving the lab had been to meet my old friend D.B. at the main university library. I told Jouvet that D.B. had developed a foot fetish attachment to J.S. and that there were jokes about D.B. s homosexuality. But there was nothing homosexual about my rendezvous at the Hotel de Beaux-Arts and Jouvet probably sensed that. 

If the idols of scientists were piled on top of one another in the manner of a totem pole the topmost would be a grinning fetish called Measurement. 

Here is a utopian version of commodity fetishism. The animation of inanimate nature or things is not taken to be a sign of alienation but rather a sign of an empathy that is the wellspring of poetry, as asserted by the Romantics. There is an identity between the world and humans, a communication, a relationship, but not one of exploitation and abuse. 

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