Word: fetichist
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...arrive at his radical critique of culture. The prevailing ideas of society, he writes, rationalize the sickness of the majority while emphasizing the neuroses of the minority: "The exhibitionist is in the same class as all those other people labeled with the final 'ist,' the sadist, the masochist, the fetichist. They are in essence the same as ourselves, who call ourselves healthy; the sole difference is that we allow our desire to play only where custom permits, while the 'ist' is out of date...
...Favorite trick of footnote-fetichist Frank: a footnote at the end of every too-daring chapter saying: "The reader will remember that this is a partial explanation...
...magazine much looked down upon. It's title was "The Souvenir." In The Mill on the Floss George Eliot says: "I speak to those who have felt the delicious resistance of hair to shears," or words to that effect. I wonder if she, too, was a fetichist...
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