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▪ I. obsessional, a.|əbˈsɛʃən(ə)l|
[f. prec. + -al.]
1. Of or pertaining to obsession or to a siege; obsidional.
1857National Mag. II. 304 Pieces of obsessional, or siege money issued by private individuals.
2. a. Characterized by or caused by an obsession (sense 3).
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Obsessional.., pertaining to or of the nature of obsession. 1913E. Jones Papers on Psycho-Anal. v. 126 Krafft-Ebing maintained the independence of obsessional states. 1940Mind XLIX. 370 Thus with obsessional duties, ‘I must go and make sure I have turned out the lights, turned off the taps,..made sure of security’. 1952V. Gollancz My Dear Timothy i. 11 Breathless delight in ease and comfort, and an obsessional drive not merely to work but..‘to work extra’. 1954M. Fortes in E. E. Evans-Pritchard Inst. Primitive Society vii. 89 There are the individuals with obsessional and paranoiac fears whose fantasies about themselves..sound like morbid caricatures of primitive beliefs. 1973R. Lewis Of Singular Purpose vi. 139 There was only one word to describe Paul Mercereau's interest in Van Rijk. It was obsessional.
b. obsessional neurosis: in psychoanalytic theory, a psychoneurosis in which obsessional thoughts resulting from a regression of the libido lead to neurotic or compulsive behaviour. So obsessional neurotic, a person suffering from an obsessional neurosis.
1918E. Jones Papers on Psycho-Anal. (ed. 2) xxx. 515 A detailed study of the obsessional neurosis. 1924J. Riviere et al. tr. Freud's Coll. Papers I. viii. 153 Hysteria's close association with the female sex and..the preference of the male for the obsessional neurosis. 1926[see isolation 2 b]. 1939E. Glover Psycho-Anal. ii. x. 78 The obsessional neurotic, like the hysteric, recognizes the irrationality of his symptoms. 1942[see de-emotionalize v.]. 1968C. Rycroft Crit. Dict. Psychoanal. 103 According to classical theory, the psychopathology of obsessional neurosis centres round regression to the anal-sadistic stage.
▪ II. obˈsessional, n.
[f. the adj.]
Someone whose personality is dominated by an obsession.
1928[see diddums]. 1945Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXXV. 41 As a group, the obsessionals are distinctly more intelligent than the others. 1963Listener 14 Mar. 474/3 The soi-disant realist was really just a neurotic old obsessional with an eye for detail. 1972E. K. Ledermann Existential Neurosis ii. 13 Obsessionals and reactive depressives showed high sedation thresholds. 1978P. Porter Cost of Seriousness 43 Dangerous modes In all weather when obsessionals walk To a favourite spur above the land. |