This is something I never really understood in itself or why it's important in the first place. Modern day examples would definitely help.

Can somebody help me out?

  • PointAndClique [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Fetishisation and fetishism are similar, but not quite the same, as I understand it.

    Fetishisation is related more to the overvaluation and/or sexualisation of something.

    Fetishism is the process of making something a 'fetish'*, or the embodied form of abstract ideas which then supplants or discards the ideas it came to represent.

    (*Similar to an 'idol' in the process of Idolatry)

    I think I've got that right someone please step in if not. In common usage I think the two terms are basically interchangeable (let's say that searching either term online is almost NSFW) however in this case they are not.