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> [“Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-beizer/perhaps-we-can-conceive-of-the-ironist-as-the-fetishist-s-apprentice/)

Janet Beizer

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> [“I know...but just the same" – this is Octave Mannoni's formulation of the structure of the fetish, and more generally of fetishistic thinking. The fetishist knows that an old, cherished belief is false but nonetheless continues to believe it. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-beizer/i-know-but-just-the-same-this-is-octave-mannoni-s-formulation-of-the/)

Janet Beizer

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## More by Janet Beizer

> [“It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a dizzying proliferation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-beizer/it-is-precisely-if-paradoxically-because-reversal-is-in-the-service/)

Janet Beizer

> [“Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-beizer/perhaps-we-can-conceive-of-the-ironist-as-the-fetishist-s-apprentice/)

Janet Beizer

> [“If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-beizer/if-we-chose-to-refuse-irony-we-risk-becoming-irony-s-dupe/)

Janet Beizer

> [“I know...but just the same" – this is Octave Mannoni's formulation of the structure of the fetish, and more generally of fetishistic thinking. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-beizer/i-know-but-just-the-same-this-is-octave-mannoni-s-formulation-of-the/)

Janet Beizer

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