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Successive editions substantially revised the text, so it cannot be treated as an unchanging doctrine.\n\nReaders also encounter historically situated medical terminology and classifications. They must not be used to label a user or pathologize an orientation. The text illuminates the history of a theory; it supplies neither a contemporary verdict nor a total explanation of human conduct.", "historical_context": "The corpus manifests do not yet establish the precise place and circumstances of composition. The images below document the author’s world or the text’s transmission. 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(Bestimmte Haarfarbe, Kleidung, selbst Körperfehler.) Keine andere ans Pathologische streifende Variation des Sexualtriebes hat soviel Anspruch auf unser Interesse wie diese durch die Sonderbarkeit der durch sie veranlaßten Erscheinungen. Eine gewisse Herabsetzung des Strebens nach dem normalen Sexualziel scheint für alle Fälle Voraussetzung (exekutive Schwäche des Sexualapparates) (17) . Die Anknüpfung ans Normale wird durch die psychologisch notwendige Überschätzung des Sexualobjektes vermittelt, welche unvermeidlich auf alles mit demselben assoziativ Verbundene übergreift. Ein gewisser Grad von solchem Fetischismus ist daher dem normalen Lieben regelmäßig eigen, besonders in jenen Stadien der Verliebtheit, in welchen das normale Sexualziel unerreichbar oder dessen Erfüllung aufgehoben erscheint.\n\nDer pathologische Fall tritt erst ein, wenn sich das Streben nach dem Fetisch über solche Bedingung hinaus fixiert und sich an die Stelle des normalen Zieles setzt, ferner wenn sich der Fetisch von der bestimmten Person loslöst, zum alleinigen Sexualobjekt wird. Es sind dies die allgemeinen Bedingungen für das Übergehen bloßer Variationen des Geschlechtstriebes in pathologische Verirrungen.\n\nIn der Auswahl des Fetisch zeigt sich, wie Binet zuerst behauptet hat und dann später durch zahlreiche Belege erwiesen worden ist, der fortwirkende Einfluß eines zumeist in früher Kindheit empfangenen sexuellen Eindruckes, was man der sprichwörtlichen Haftfähigkeit einer ersten Liebe beim Normalen (»On revient toujours à ses premiers amours«) an die Seite stellen darf. Eine solche Ableitung ist besonders deutlich bei Fällen mit bloß fetischistischer Bedingtheit des Sexualobjektes. Der Bedeutung frühzeitiger sexueller Eindrücke werden wir noch an anderer Stelle begegnen (18) .\n\nIn anderen Fällen ist es eine dem Betroffenen meist nicht bewußte symbolische Gedankenverbindung, welche zum Ersatz des Objektes durch den Fetisch geführt hat. Die Wege dieser Verbindungen sind nicht immer mit Sicherheit nachzuweisen (der Fuß ist ein uraltes sexuelles Symbol, schon im Mythus (19) , »Pelz« verdankt seine Fetischrolle wohl der Assoziation mit der Behaarung des Mons veneris); doch scheint auch solche Symbolik nicht immer unabhängig von sexuellen Erlebnissen der Kinderzeit (20) .", "source_id": "project-gutenberg-39938", "translation_type": "original_language" }, { "language": "en", "text": "The transition to cases of fetishism involving renunciation of a normal or perverse sexual aim is formed by cases in which a fetishistic condition is required in the sexual object if the sexual aim is to be attained. (A particular hair color, clothing, even bodily defects.) No other variation of the sexual instinct bordering on the pathological has so great a claim upon our interest as this one, because of the peculiarity of the phenomena it brings about. A certain diminution of the striving toward the normal sexual aim seems to be a prerequisite in all cases (executive weakness of the sexual apparatus) (17). The connection with the normal is mediated by the psychologically necessary overvaluation of the sexual object, which inevitably extends to everything associatively connected with it. A certain degree of such fetishism is therefore regularly inherent in normal love, especially during those stages of being in love in which the normal sexual aim appears unattainable or its fulfillment suspended.\n\nThe pathological case arises only when the striving for the fetish becomes fixed beyond such a condition and takes the place of the normal aim, and further when the fetish becomes detached from the particular person and becomes the sole sexual object. These are the general conditions under which mere variations of the sexual instinct pass into pathological aberrations.\n\nIn the choice of the fetish there appears, as Binet first asserted and as was later demonstrated by numerous examples, the continuing influence of a sexual impression received mostly in early childhood. This may be placed alongside the proverbial tenacity of a first love in normal persons (»On revient toujours à ses premiers amours«). Such a derivation is especially clear in cases where the sexual object is subject merely to a fetishistic condition. We shall encounter the significance of early sexual impressions elsewhere (18).\n\nIn other cases, it is a symbolic association of ideas, usually unconscious to the person concerned, that has led to the replacement of the object by the fetish. The paths of these associations cannot always be established with certainty (the foot is an ancient sexual symbol, already present in myth (19); »fur« probably owes its role as a fetish to its association with the hair of the mons veneris). Yet even such symbolism does not always appear to be independent of sexual experiences in childhood (20).", "translator": "Codex gpt-5.6-sol", "edition": "Prokopton42 non-official AI translation, 2026-09-14", "source_id": "prokopton42-codex-translation:gpt-5.6-sol:corpus-passage-translation-v1", "translation_type": "ai_generated_translation", "official_status": "non_official", "generation_model": "gpt-5.6-sol" }, { "language": "fr", "text": "La transition vers les cas de fétichisme comportant le renoncement à un but sexuel normal ou pervers est constituée par les cas où une condition fétichiste doit être remplie par l’objet sexuel pour que le but sexuel puisse être atteint. (Une certaine couleur de cheveux, un vêtement, voire des défauts corporels.) Aucune autre variation de la pulsion sexuelle touchant au pathologique ne mérite autant notre intérêt que celle-ci, en raison de la singularité des phénomènes auxquels elle donne lieu. Un certain abaissement de la tendance vers le but sexuel normal paraît être la condition préalable dans tous les cas (faiblesse exécutive de l’appareil sexuel) (17). Le rattachement au normal est assuré par la surestimation psychologiquement nécessaire de l’objet sexuel, qui s’étend inévitablement à tout ce qui lui est associé. Un certain degré de ce fétichisme appartient donc régulièrement à l’amour normal, surtout dans les phases de l’état amoureux où le but sexuel normal paraît inaccessible ou sa réalisation suspendue.\n\nLe cas pathologique ne se présente que lorsque la tendance vers le fétiche se fixe au-delà d’une telle condition et se substitue au but normal, puis lorsque le fétiche se détache de la personne déterminée et devient l’unique objet sexuel. Telles sont les conditions générales du passage de simples variations de la pulsion sexuelle à des égarements pathologiques.\n\nDans le choix du fétiche se manifeste, comme Binet l’a d’abord affirmé et comme de nombreuses preuves l’ont ensuite établi, l’influence persistante d’une impression sexuelle reçue le plus souvent dans la petite enfance. On peut la rapprocher de l’attachement proverbial du sujet normal à son premier amour (« On revient toujours à ses premiers amours »). Une telle dérivation est particulièrement nette dans les cas où l’objet sexuel est seulement soumis à une condition fétichiste. Nous rencontrerons encore ailleurs l’importance des impressions sexuelles précoces (18).\n\nDans d’autres cas, c’est une association symbolique d’idées, le plus souvent inconsciente pour l’intéressé, qui a conduit au remplacement de l’objet par le fétiche. Les voies suivies par ces associations ne peuvent pas toujours être établies avec certitude (le pied est un très ancien symbole sexuel, déjà présent dans le mythe (19) ; la « fourrure » doit sans doute son rôle de fétiche à son association avec la pilosité du mons veneris) ; toutefois, même une telle symbolique ne paraît pas toujours indépendante des expériences sexuelles de l’enfance (20).", "translator": "Codex gpt-5.6-sol", "edition": "Prokopton42 non-official AI translation, 2026-09-14", "source_id": "prokopton42-codex-translation:gpt-5.6-sol:corpus-passage-translation-v1", "translation_type": "ai_generated_translation", "official_status": "non_official", "generation_model": "gpt-5.6-sol" } ], "content_checksum": "c2700a09e704d719d95392a2582393b2d59903419214210b8d8bceb9149cddce" }