The use of the fetish.(Critical Essay)

From: Shakespeare Studies | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

That use is not forbidden usury. Which happies those that pay the willing loan....

(Sonnet 6, lines 5-6)

WHATEVER "fetishism" is in practice, cultural critics have increasingly come to the conclusion that, in theory, the concept--relevant at once for psychoanalysis, economics, anthropology and aesthetics--tends to redound upon itself vertiginously. "If today's critical theorists have a fetish,' writes one bemused critic, "it is probably fetishism itself" (Wray 1998). Fetishism as theory collapses into the terms of its own analysis. It enacts what it describes. As ...

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