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Lennard J. Davis

Obsession

A History

296 pages, 17 halftones  6 x 9  © 2008

Cloth $27.50

ISBN: 9780226137827   Published November 2008

Paper $17.00

ISBN: 9780226137841   Published October 2009

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Introduction: Obsession in Our Time

1    Origins of Obsession          
2    The Emergence of Obsession         
3    Specialization as Monomania         
4    Never Done: Compulsive Writing, Graphomania, Bibliomania         
5    Freud and Obsession as the Gateway to Psychoanalysis     
6    Obsessive Sex and Love    
7    Obsession and Visual Art   
8    OCD: Now and Forever    

Conclusion: So What? So What? So What? So What? and Other Obsessive Thoughts       
Acknowledgments 
Notes        
Index         
Subjects


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