Analysis
In its mildest form an obsession is a preoccupation with some
task or duty whereby you cannot rest until that task has been
performed. There are many such obsessions, as with, for
example, the need to clean and polish your car almost daily, do
the washing up immediately after every meal, or set off to work at
precisely the same time every day. There are also other obsessions
most of us can identify with and that we all experience from time
to time. The very act of falling in love, for example, can be said to
be a type of obsession.
In psychology the definition of obsession is any idea that
constantly invades one’s thoughts. Many such obsessions ...