Q1
Freud discusses the abnormalities regarding gender, referring to gender not being only male and female. He states how these abnormalities "facilitate our understanding of normal development"(7). How are fetishes (discussed later in the text) classified as normal and abnormal, and if they are even talked about in terms of normalcy? Do fetishes also require a comparison of abnormal to define them?
Q2
"That it finds its object in the infant's own body" (63). This quote is referring to infants finding objects in themselves, which seems to be active. However, throughout the text, female is referred to passive, while the male is referred to as active. How does this relate to infants?
Q3
In sec 5 of Essay III, there is the discussion of finding the object. There is assigning of the object to the self, as well as to the other. The object assigned to the self is pre-puberty, and seeing an object in others is after puberty. But is it possible to see the object in oneself in adulthood?
Q4 (Xerox article #2)
How do women experience and develop fetishes? The article only explains how men do, through the fear of castration because of seeing a woman.
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In response to your fourth question--
For Freud, the woman is largely unknowable: he has developed his theories regarding sexuality in a fully male-centric way, coding the woman as a lack, an absence, deformed in relation to the male, the penis. This could attribute for the fact that an explanation of the female formation of fetish is left out of the essay. In the section of “The Sexual Aberrations,” Freud delimits a less phallus-based, though more general, process of fetish development: the fetish is simply a displaced sexual aim that allows a non-sexual entity to become a sexual object.
--Nicole
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