What does «fetichismo» mean in Spanish?
- A cult or form of primitive religiosity involving the worship of fetishes or objects (often anthropomorphic or zoomorphic artifacts) believed to have magical powers. Fetishism was considered by evolutionary anthropologists to be one of the most primitive stages of human religiosity, and was considered a variant of animism: in fact, it was later seen how the two religious practices differed in many respects. The term fetishism was first used by the French philosopher and linguist Charles de Brosses in 1760.
- Idolatry, excessive veneration.
- (fetichismo de la mercancía) Perception of certain relations (especially production and exchange) not as relations between persons, but as social relations between things (money and goods exchanged in market trade).
- (fetichismo sexual) A form of paraphilia in which the target of desire is an inanimate object or a specific part of the person. The concept was introduced by Sigmund Freud, following 19th century sexologists such as Alfred Binet and Richard von Krafft-Ebing.