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obsessional

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1. obsessional - Adjective

2. obsessional - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

characterized by or constituting an obsession

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Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity. Sigmund Freud

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. V. S. Pritchett

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. Jacques Lacan

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true. Dirk Bogarde

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. Karl Abraham

the obsessional character of his response Source: Internet

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