... attention to the “text itself,” to the text’s “surface,” with a continued investment in the critique of ideology. Slavoj Žižek fetishism fetishistic reading symptomatic reading ideology critique ...

...The Factory, the Coat, the Piano, and the “Negro Slave”:<subtitle>On the Afro-Atlantic Sources of Marx’s Fetish</subtitle> The idea of the “fetish” stigmatized African gods. Marx formulated the theory of historical materialism during an era of not only anti-Semitism in Europe but also...

...The Acropolis, the Couch, the Fur Hat, and the “Savage”:<subtitle>On Freud’s Ambivalent Fetish</subtitle> Freud's insecurities about his race and his sexual orientation shaped psychoanalysis and inspired divinations about the human personality that uncannily resemble underdeveloped versions...

... In pursuit of a livelihood and in a defensive response to the anti-Semitism of the day, Freud's early followers organized themselves around ideas, ritual practices, and membership requirements much like those of a priesthood. Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis fetishism ambivalence...

...Pots, Packets, Beads, and Foreigners:<subtitle>The Making and the Meaning of the Real-Life “Fetish”</subtitle> This chapter discusses the conceptions of value and agency embodied in the human-made gods of the Afro-Atlantic religions and the class interests they encode—interests very different...

...A Port of Entry<subtitle>Fetish and Folklore in a Yearning Region</subtitle> ...