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Are there any other interesting aspects about Wilhelm Stekel's contributions to the theory of fetishism and of perversion?
Wilhelm Stekel also deals differently than Freud with the problem of perversion.
How was perversion handled according to Wilhelm Stekel?
Wilhelm Stekel points out the significance of the repressed religious “self” in neuroses and indicates that apart from the repressed sexuality type, there is also a repressed morality type.
Was perversion punished?
What fetishes does when Wilhelm Stekel mentions it in his theory?
Wilhelm Stekel contrasted what he called normal fetishes from extreme interests
How was the line drawn between fetishes and extreme interests according to Wilhelm Stekel?
Wilhelm Stekel: They become pathological only when they have pushed the whole love object into the background and themselves appropriate the function of a love object“

Question: Did he want to cure them or have them embrace the fetish?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Wilhelm Stekel want to cure patients with fetishes or have them embrace the fetish?