traditional societies throughout the world, as well as the Catholic cult of the relics of saints, (2) Marxian commodity fetishism in which the cult of the inanimate products of labor substitutes for the social relations of production, and (3) the psychoanalytic stand-in for a sexual object. ...
(ibid., p. 43) in European religious and philosophical thought and that, likewise, in the scientific discourses of Darwin and Wundt the animal is merely a physiological object, “an outgrown body” (ibid., p. 41). Only in the Eastern religions, he says, is there a “constant ...