Scream Fetish
“A Tokyo man with a self-confessed fetish for women’s screams has been arrested for allegedly attacking over 20 women in the capital, police said Monday. The pervert, Masahi Nakakoji, has admitted to the allegations. ‘I get really aroused when a woman screams in shock,’ the 26-year-old company employee reportedly told investigators.” — Mainichi News (Japan)
In one sense, a scream fetish is nothing special, since it’s just the aural equivalent of being aroused by fantasies of rape or sexual violence — a potential for arousal that is shared by both genders. On the other hand, what is unique about the fetish is precisely that it does isolate and fixate on the sonic portion of the rape fantasy. Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream is an attempt to create a visual image of a sound, but this fetish is the opposite: the sound stands for the image, the scream denotes the rape.
To the extent that this scream fetish is thus a classic example of synecdoche, the relation in which a part stands for a whole, you have to wonder whether synecdoche defines fetishism as such. Certainly in the case of the cardigan fetishist, the sweater embodied the schoolgirl who wore it. But is this always true? When a man worships a shoe, is it because the shoe represents something else to him? Is it because, as Freud thought, the shoe stands for mommy’s privates? Or is it possible to fetishize something in and of itself? Can you fetishize the part without the whole — or, in the case of mommy, without the hole?
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