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?
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?
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.