ABSTRACT
It is only latterly that special attention has been paid to the problems of fetishism by psycho-analysis. In the first edition of his Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie Freud assigned to it a unique position among the other sexual aberrations and among the neuroses. Further observation has shown, however, that in many cases fetishism and neurosis are both present in the same individual. In the second edition of his above-mentioned book Freud has made a short reference to this fact, and has traced the phenomena of fetishism back to a special variety of repression which he has called‘ partial repression’ In consequence of this the once emphasized contrast between neurosis and fetishism has been done away with.
