2018
DOI: 10.26613/esic.2.2.90
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Aesthetics and Fetishism: Key Stimuli and Power Objects

Abstract: A fetish is a specific emotionally loaded object, body part, or situation that draws our attention and desire, and sexual fetishism is the sexual arousal that a person experiences when in contact with such a loaded object. Until now, psychology has had trouble understanding the distinctive lust objects and the orchestration of urges in the world of fetishism, so fetishism has therefore fallen into the category of perversions and abnormal behavior. In this study, fetishism is moved to the field of aesthetics, a… Show more

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“…stimulus functions as a kind of alpha stimulus dominating other input in the human hierarchy of attention, and an object containing key stimuli, therefore, automatically gets our attention and becomes a power object or a fetish, if you like (Høgh-Olesen, 2018.…”
Section: Key Stimuli and Innate Sensibilitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…stimulus functions as a kind of alpha stimulus dominating other input in the human hierarchy of attention, and an object containing key stimuli, therefore, automatically gets our attention and becomes a power object or a fetish, if you like (Høgh-Olesen, 2018.…”
Section: Key Stimuli and Innate Sensibilitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Each key stimulus fits like a key to the lock of an inborn stimulus filter: the innate releasing mechanism in the central nervous system, which releases instinct-like behavior in the form of fixed action patterns when the specific key stimulus is perceived. In that way, the key stimulus functions as a kind of alpha stimulus dominating other input in the human hierarchy of attention, and an object containing key stimuli, therefore, automatically gets our attention and becomes a power object or a fetish, if you like (Høgh-Olesen, 2018, 2019).…”
Section: Key Stimuli and Innate Sensibilitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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