Paraphilias as defined by are DSM-IV, sexual impulse disorders characterized by intensely arousing, recurrent sexual fantasies, urges and behaviors (of at least six months' duration) that are considered deviant with respect to cultural norms and that produce clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of psychosocial functioning. The common par...

It is not my intention to deal with the literature of fetishism. It is not very extensive on the analytical side ; and on the non-analytical side, although extensive, it is not very illuminating. Freud has expressed his fundamental contributions to the subject with great lucidity, and there is no doubt to my mind that they provide us with the most important line of approach. But I feel sure tha...

This paper examines the 'fetishism of numbers' (Gudeman, 1998, p.1) that has taken hold in restructured, market-oriented institutions higher education. As all areas academic life have been rendered down to quantifiable, and university environments become dominated by rituals counting, numbers imbued with a potency almost preternatural proportions. The points comparison between power ascribed nu...

Abstract: China is actively promoting common prosperity to address the contradiction of unbalanced and inadequate development. Financialization has become backdrop for prosperity. How understanding changing connotations factors influencing it in this context becomes subject paper. We argue that imbalance between income from assets labor new forms value generation are reasons why difficult achie...