An edition of Obsession
(2009)
Obsession
A History
by Lennard J. Davis
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A wide-ranging (“biocultural”) examination of the origins and development of obsessive behavior.
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First Sentence
"When I was around six or seven, I began to have thoughts about death and dying that I couldn't push out of my mind."
Table of Contents
Introduction: Obsession in Our Time
1. Origins of Obsession
2. The Emergence of Obsession
3. Specialization as Monomania
4. Never Done: Compulsive Writing, Graphomania, Bibliomania
5. Freud and Obsession as the Gateway to Psychoanalysis
6. Obsessive Sex and Love
7. Obsession and Visual Art
8. OCD: Now and Forever
9. Conclusion: So What? So What? So What? So What? and Other Obsessive Thoughts
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