ABSTRACT
This chapter defines and describes the phenomenology of fetish enactments; their experience, behavior, structure and use. This chapter distinguishes fetish enactments from the so-called perversions. It describes the fetish enactment relationship to the real self and the real person. It shows its use as an alternate path around a sexual and interpersonal inhibition. Sexual inhibition is merely one of many symptomatic derivative expressions of a personality inhibition. Fetish enactments will reveal the personality dynamics of the enactor. The mutual engagement in the fetish enactment scene, both in reality and fantasy, is revelatory of personality and neurotic adaptations. The intermediate transitional zone of fantasy-reality mixes in enactments is described. Moving these fetish enactments from stalemate to growth requires understanding their experience structures and their uses. There are multiple clinical examples.
