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Obsession

Name: Obsession
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 04543838
Price: 9350 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: Lennard J. Davis
ISBN: 9780226137841

A History

Lennard J. Davis

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04543838

Publishers The University of Chicago Press, October 2009

We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted t... Full description

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We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of single-minded musicians, we cheer on driven athletes. To be obsessive is to be American; to be obsessive is to be modern. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category - both a pathology and a goal. Behind this paradox lies a fascinating history, which Lennard J. Davis tells in "Obsession". Beginning with the roots of the disease in demonic possession and its secular successors, Davis traces the evolution of obsessive behavior from a social and religious fact of life into a medical and psychiatric problem. From obsessive aspects of professional specialization to obsessive compulsive disorder and nymphomania, no variety of obsession eludes Davis' graceful analysis.