different between fetishism vs anaclitism

English

Alternative forms

• fetichism (archaic)

Etymology

fetish +? -ism

Noun

fetishism (countable and uncountable, plural fetishisms)

1. The belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people.
2. A form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body.

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on fetishism
• Wikipedia article on the paraphilia

English

Etymology

See anaclisis.

Noun

anaclitism (plural anaclitisms)

1. (psychology) The pattern of deriving adult sexual arousal from objects that one was exposed to as an infant. The fetish value often stems from tactile stimulation similar to that experienced by the infant before it could see well.
2. (psychology) In Freudian theory, the relation between bodily functions in early childhood and the later development of the sexual instinct. The infant's bodily function of simple hunger, to take a primary example, is at first attached solely to the act of suckling at mother's breast.

Synonyms

• anaclisis

See also

• fetishism
• infantilism
• babyism
• paraphilic infantilism

References

• Laplanche, J. and Pontalis, J.-B. (1973). The Language of Psycho-Analysis. W. W. Norton and Company. ?ISBN, entry: "Anaclisis; Anaclitic (or Attachment)".

Anagrams

• talismanic