OBSESSION.................99 (0.012%)
Basin obliquity obliquity, changes oblisk observatory obsession obsidian Occam, 4409 QUANTAVOLUTION AND CATASTROPHE: PART 5: The Scope of Quantavolution - - -
awareness, self-images, artistry, aggressiveness, persistency (obsession) in task performances, 10569 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 2: - Chapter 8: HOMO SCHIZO MEETS GOD -
a great distance to establish the obsession of peoples everywhere with their traumatic beginnings, 12782 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
event establishing the oedipal complex, guilt, obsession, 12788 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
He generated a formidable sometimes caricatured obsession out of ancient catastrophes, 12792 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 10: ABC'S OF ASTROPHYSICS -
dissociation and hatred of reality, his obsession, 13398 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 11: CLOCKWORK -
escape the psychiatrist's verdict of obsession, 13409 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 3: - Chapter 11: CLOCKWORK -
The attitude became at times an obsession in that he would disregard problems or proof that lacked this capability. 19301 COSMIC HERETICS: PART 5: - Chapter 16: PRECURSORS OF QUANTAVOLUTION -
sky-oriented, part of the human obsession with the celestial order which is one of our basic principles in this work. 28727 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 09: THE OLYMPIAN RULERS : MONUMENTALISM
a reason for the immense historical obsession with the sky-god and planet Venus. 29486 CHAOS AND CREATION: - - CHAPTER 10: VENUS AND MARS : THE PLOT OF THE ILIAD
orient to the skies was an obsession, 34525 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART I: ATMOSPHERICS: Chapter 4 Magnetism and Axial Tilts -
grip even the savants in their obsession with foisting it upon their perceived ancestors and their descendents.36429 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART II: EXOTERRESTRIAL DROPS: Chapter 8 Falling Dust and Stone -
figures, but if we consider the obsession of ancient voices with days and years of darkness and ascribe half of this to fall-out of dust, 36795 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART II: EXOTERRESTRIAL DROPS: Chapter 8 Falling Dust and Stone -
figure. Some of man's early obsession with geometrical measurements of Earth and sky were motivated by perceptions of terrific effects and of changes still then occurring or feared.42939 THE LATELY TORTURED EARTH: PART IV: CRUSTAL TURBULENCE: Chapter 19 Expansion and Contraction -
renowned, is most impressed by the obsession of all peoples with the earliest times of creation, 62636 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 3: MECHANICS OF HUMANIZATION : ANCIENT CATASTROPHES
of their cultures with the same obsession that great and terrible events occurred;62637 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 3: MECHANICS OF HUMANIZATION : ANCIENT CATASTROPHES
of the beast. Some acts of obsession and compulsion came to be called 'will, ' 64647 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 4: THE GESTALT OF CREATION : VOLUNTARISM
Attention extended to habit and to obsession and to a sensing of property, 64983 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 4: THE GESTALT OF CREATION : THE NEW HUMAN BEING
an outcome of attention, habit, and obsession. 65012 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 4: THE GESTALT OF CREATION : THE NEW HUMAN BEING
a persisting interest, amounting to an obsession, 65211 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 5: CULTURAL REVOLUTION : PROTO-CULTURE
for time and recall, and an obsession for reiteration. 66351 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 6: SCHIZOID INSTITUTIONS : SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
same from then to now: an obsession upon a displaced target (god, 66620 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 6: SCHIZOID INSTITUTIONS : PSYCHOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION
all of these together, b) the obsession (repetition compulsion) as a glue of the binding, 66835 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 6: SCHIZOID INSTITUTIONS : AUTHORITY
stern compulsions. Identification, displacement and projection, obsession, 68147 HOMO SCHIZO I: - - Chapter 7: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF HISTORY : NAZIS, STALINISTS, AND DEMOCRATS
REPETITION PSYCHOSOMATISM Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION DISPLACEMENT PROJECTION AND PEDAGOGY TIME AND REMEMBERING OBSESSIONS, 69019 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - - TABLE OF CONTENTS -
to get up in the morning." obsession: " 69672 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 1: THE NORMALLY INSANE : THE IDEAL PERSON
multiple personality negativism denial neurasthenia neurosis obsession perception disorders hallucinations illusions projection blame psychosomatic disorders functional physiopathy thought disorders rationalization delusions These pathological symptoms will be associated with normal symptoms, 70054 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 1: THE NORMALLY INSANE : SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL ILLNESS
shown to be indistinguishable basically from obsession, 70149 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 1: THE NORMALLY INSANE : RECONCILING THE NORMAL AND ABNORMAL
fall from grace" "Work is fun" Obsession "I must continuously wash my hands" "Pray before eating" "Dietary rules are to be strictly observed" "I watch my diet carefully" Illusion "People know what I am thinking" "God is on our side" "We are God's chosen people" Thinking machines Logic "The world is black as doom" "Paradise has no night" "Shoul is dark and dreary" "Night and day are opposites, 70199 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 1: THE NORMALLY INSANE : SCHIZOPHRENIC AND SCHIZOTYPICAL
is a form of habit or obsession and that, 70347 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 1: THE NORMALLY INSANE : THERAPIES
Here, too, is a source of obsession. 72046 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 3: BRAINWORK : THE LOCATION OF INSTINCT DELAY
described; these would be memory and obsession; 72444 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 3: BRAINWORK : MEMORY AND REPETITION
that is, memorizing is itself an obsession, 72454 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 3: BRAINWORK : MEMORY AND REPETITION
to judge when memorizing has become obsession, 72456 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 3: BRAINWORK : MEMORY AND REPETITION
forward into the subsequent chapters. Memory, obsession, 72462 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 3: BRAINWORK : MEMORY AND REPETITION
de Grazia CHAPTER FOUR DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION We have come to view the human as a poly-ego casting forth throngs of displacements,72721 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION -
confronting the ideas of displacement and obsession, 72738 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION -
of psychopathology, as with "displacement" and "obsession," 72743 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION -
of thought occurs by displacement and obsession. 72808 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION -
erratically related. Cultures take over the obsession with time that the individual cannot avoid and pro bono publico define the intervals of time that must be mastered. 72991 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : TIME AND REMEMBERING
proceeding, now in a becalmed way. Obsession, 73097 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
an important part of human memory. Obsession is "excessive," " 73109 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
or a line of poetry. This "obsession with obsessions" determines what is remembered, 73113 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
abstracted from primitive ceremonies. The terms "obsession" and "compulsion" are separate but confused in the psychiatric lexicon. 73133 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
tied to both behavior and thoughts. Obsession is of the family of memory, 73135 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
which is likely to become an obsession. 73137 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
character as best one may: hence, obsession and compulsion, 73145 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
shout obscenities upon entering a church. Obsession may be an agonizing repetitive recall of an embarrassing scene, 73149 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
in a church. The relation of obsession to habit is clear in this case. 73151 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
of thought converted into a deed. Obsession can be viewed as a form of deeply imprinted memory, 73156 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
contrary. At the same time, an obsession (and even faint memory is in a sense an obsession) is a repetitive trained behavior. 73159 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
memory is in a sense an obsession) is a repetitive trained behavior. 73159 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
nature, but lacks a history of obsession with it, 73176 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
to a professor abruptly, and the obsession is extinguished. 73182 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
of his prolonged studies. Habit and obsession are distinguishable in two ways, 73189 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
and preferable terms, habit is an obsession that is governed by awareness and instrumentalism; 73192 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
be broken or strengthened; conversely, an obsession is a rigid habit. 73193 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
is a rigid habit. A controllable obsession is then a habit. 73194 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
The human "naturally" is prone to obsession. 73198 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
the egg?" Toilet training is an obsession that is culture-bound, 73207 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
had to be preceded by an obsession for obsessions. 73208 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
is: "What generated the master strategy obsession?" 73209 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
an animal habit is already an obsession. 73214 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
cannot otherwise cope with existence. His obsession-habits are infinitely variable. 73221 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
is more readily understandable as an obsession under some degree of control, 73226 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
act does not proceed from unconscious obsession, 73231 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS, HABITS
habit. Notes (Chapter 4: Displacement and Obsession) 1. 73244 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 4: DISPLACEMENT AND OBSESSION : Notes (Chapter 4: Displacement and Obsession)
of the gods. Guilt is an obsession with the conceived need to punish some part of oneself.73533 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 5: COPING WITH FEAR : GUILT AND PUNISHMENT
moved the world order to destruction; obsession with numerous rules to proceed in fixed ways on pain of a variety of punishments ranging from mild social disapproval to the most horrifying extirpation that can be devised; 73599 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 5: COPING WITH FEAR : GUILT AND PUNISHMENT
mind certainly dwells upon hermaphroditism. Resistance, obsession, 73669 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 5: COPING WITH FEAR : GUILT AND PUNISHMENT
catatonism, and orgiasm, as well as obsession. 74167 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 5: COPING WITH FEAR : SUBLIMATION OF FEAR
memories in people also makes for obsession with "correct" logical expression and for following compulsively the dictates, 75519 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 7: THE GOOD, THE TRUE, AND THE BEAUTIFUL : THE DISSOLUTION OF LOGIC
greater degrees of the conversion of obsession into bureaucratic and scientific habit and showing that, 75850 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 7: THE GOOD, THE TRUE, AND THE BEAUTIFUL : THE COST OF LOSING MAGIC
of forces is certainly a crowning obsession of mankind. 76144 HOMO SCHIZO II: - - Chapter 7: THE GOOD, THE TRUE, AND THE BEAUTIFUL : THE ORIGINS OF GOOD AND EVIL
passive controls, it might be an obsession, 77633 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 1: SACRED SCANDAL AND DISASTER Chapter 4: CATASTROPHE AND SUBLIMATION : THE DISPLACEMENT OF AFFECTS
lesson. The repetitiveness, another aspect of obsession, 83398 THE DISASTROUS LOVE AFFAIR OF MOON AND MARS PART 3: THERAPY FOR GROUP FEAR Chapter 14: THE USES OF LANGUAGE : HUMAN STRESS AND LANGUAGE
point. They exhibited the most frenetic obsession with lightning; 87462 GODS FIRE: - - Chapter 3: CATASTROPHE AND DIVINE FIRES : THE ELECTROSTATIC AGE
of priests. The signal quality of obsession, 94260 GODS FIRE: - - Chapter 8: THE ELECTRIC GOD : SIN VS SCIENCE
obsession, which can begin with the obsession of sin, 94261 GODS FIRE: - - Chapter 8: THE ELECTRIC GOD : SIN VS SCIENCE
must die with him. Reinforcing his obsession was the unconscious appreciation that Yahweh also must die with Moses.94375 GODS FIRE: - - Chapter 8: THE ELECTRIC GOD : IMMORTALITY
not grow kinder with age; the obsession would have become more and more difficult to suppress and conceal; 94378 GODS FIRE: - - Chapter 8: THE ELECTRIC GOD : IMMORTALITY
action to practice to habit to obsession goes the continuum, 96091 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 1: THEOMACHY Chapter 1: THE GENESIS OF RELIGION -
social extrusions. Symbolizing, displacements, identifications, memory, obsession,98397 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 1: THEOMACHY Chapter 7: MAN'S DIVINE MIRROR -
many psychopathologies, where it is called obsession. 98528 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 1: THEOMACHY Chapter 7: MAN'S DIVINE MIRROR -
impressed upon him. First came schizophrenic obsession. 98532 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 1: THEOMACHY Chapter 7: MAN'S DIVINE MIRROR -
it is autoinflicted neurologically afterwards. An obsession is an auto-inflicted reiteration of some or all of the initial reaction to a trauma. 98533 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 1: THEOMACHY Chapter 7: MAN'S DIVINE MIRROR -
initial reaction to a trauma. An obsession discharges quantas of the stored force of the trauma, 98535 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 1: THEOMACHY Chapter 7: MAN'S DIVINE MIRROR -
over others), displacement of affect, identification, obsession (repetition), 99648 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 2: THEOTROPY: Chapter 10: ETHICS AND THE SUPERNATURAL -
Blame part of it upon his obsession with history, 99925 THE DEVINE SUCCESSION PART 2: THEOTROPY: Chapter 10: ETHICS AND THE SUPERNATURAL -
character and remembered as a religious obsession. 108698 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 3: WORKING OF THE MIND: Chapter 21: JUPITER'S BANDS AND SATURN'S RINGS -
would postulate, is a catastrophically indoctrinated obsession with routines and with the avoidance of future disasters. (110667 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 5: COMMUNICATING A SCIENTIFIC MODEL: Chapter 27: A COSMIC DEBATE : IV
truth of legend" and "the celestial obsession of myth"). 112162 THE BURNING OF TROY: PART 5: COMMUNICATING A SCIENTIFIC MODEL: Chapter 30: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE : THE POLITICS OF UNIFORMITARIANISM
life, in fact it became his obsession. 126543 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : Chapter 1: CULTURAL AMNESIA : AMNESIA
something man did." In either case, obsession begins to grow with preventing reoccurrence of the catastrophe by acting differently towards the gods. 128757 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : Chapter 4: STRUCTURING THE APOCALYPSE: : Old and New World Variations
earth will be remade." Finally, once obsession has reached the pure stage where propitiation seems hopeless, 128760 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : Chapter 4: STRUCTURING THE APOCALYPSE: : Old and New World Variations
was the most sacred, and the obsession of Mayan numerology became to reconcile the cycle of 260 days with all longer cycles. 129039 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : Chapter 4: STRUCTURING THE APOCALYPSE: : Old and New World Variations
is thus a magnificent check against obsession with that distant day when the "sun" would come to an end.129056 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : Chapter 4: STRUCTURING THE APOCALYPSE: : Old and New World Variations
cases in which an ancient mythical obsession with preventing cataclysms falls later into the hands of people ready to use it quite differently from the original intention, 129103 RECOLLECTIONS OF A FALLEN SKY - VELIKOVSKY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA : Chapter 4: STRUCTURING THE APOCALYPSE: : Old and New World Variations
Yet the concept of a collective obsession spread among a great many persons on all scientific levels and in all scientific fields would fit the dogmatic mould.139891 THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: PART 6: THE SCIENTIFIC RECEPTION SYSTEM - - -