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
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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
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Conclusion: So What? So What? So What? So What? and Other Obsessive Thoughts
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