An Acceptable Abnormality?

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Freud and His Forebears: Binet and Krafft-Ebing
1. The Riddle of Fetishism
2. Alfred Binet and the Riddle of Fetishism
Binet and Doubling
Binet’s Conceptualization of Fetishism: The Birth of a Riddle
3. Freud, Krafft-Ebing, and the Problem of Perversions
Krafft-Ebing’s Classification of Perversions
Fetishism, Masochism, and Shared Aetiology
4. Freud’s Clinical Framework: The Neurosis–Perversion Opposition

Chapter 3 The Neurotic “Negative”: Freud’s Early Perversion Theory
1. Freud’s Early Aetiology of Neurosis and Perversion
2. Inherited Concepts: Trauma, Splitting, and Defence in Freud’s 1890s Work
3. The Nascent “Riddle”: Fetishism’s Challenge to Freud’s Early Framework

Chapter 4 The Initial Confrontation: Fetishism in Freud’s Three Essays and Early Revisions (1905–8)
1. Fetishism and the Breakdown of Freud’s 1905 Framework
2. Childhood Impressions and the Turn to Fantasy
3. Infantile Theories, Castration Anxiety, and the Object

Chapter 5 Deepening the Riddle: Fetishism, Trauma, and the Oedipus Complex (1909–20)
1. On the Genesis of Fetishism (1909)
2. The Role of the Fetish in Totem and Taboo
3. Freud’s Development of Binet’s Theory of Childhood Trauma
4. The Oedipus Complex and the Aetiology of Perversions
5. Fetishism and the Riddle

Chapter 6 Freud’s Late Works on Fetishism
1. Freud on Fetishism: Early and Late
2. Fetishism (1927) and Other Works
3. Freud on Disavowal, Scotomization, and Splitting in Fetishism
4. Freud on Binet on Double-Sided Fetishes
5. Fetishism in Freud’s Works in the Late 1930s
6. Freud, Fetishism, and the Brain
7. Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory and Fetishism

Chapter 7 “Fetishism” and Freud’s Riddle in Jacques Lacan’s Work
1. Doubling, Personality, and Perversity in Lacan’s Theorization of Fetishism
Binet’s Ideas on Paranoia as Doubling of Personality in Lacan’s Explorations
Lacan’s Initial Approach to Fetishism
Lacan’s Psychoanalytic Model of Doubling
2. Lacan’s Debate on Fetishism with Object-Relation Theory
Fetishism as an Object-Relation Phenomenon
Fetishism as a Paradigm of Perversion in Lacan’s Theory
3. The Fetish as a Model of the Object of Human Desire in Lacan’s Thinking

Conclusion
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