Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The Obsessive Acts

Obsessive acts, the subject is compelled to perform relief originally served or processes protectors obsessive ideas.

Acts in two stages, the first part is canceled by the second, are typical of obsessional neurosis. Course, are misunderstood by conscious thought tends to rationalize them. But its true meaning is in the representation of the conflict between two antithetical impulses of approximately equal magnitude, love and hate toward the same person.

We know that a principle of infatuation is often perceived as hate, and love that is denied the satisfaction becomes easy to hate, and the poets tell us that stormy stage of falling in love can exist side by side, as in a competition, both feelings contradictory. But we were shocked to find a chronic juxtaposition of love and hate, both intense and oriented toward the same person.

Would have expected had mastered love to hatred or was eaten by him. But love has not been able to extinguish the hatred, but only to reject the unconscious, psychic instance in which it is safe from the action of consciousness and can persist unabated and even grow some. In such circumstances, conscious love can grow, in turn, by reaction, a special intensity to carry out constantly and work tirelessly to maintain the repression of its opposite.

If an intense love against hatred rises almost as strong as him, the immediate result must be a partial paralysis of the will, a failure to adopt any resolution as to all acts whose motive is to be love. But in addition, such indecision does not remain limited for long to a single set of actions. Indecision is gradually extended to all activity on the subject. This regime is established obsession and doubt, as we show in the mind of the obsessive neurotic.

The doubt corresponds to the internal perception of indecision that takes hold of the subject as a result of inhibition of love by hate, as it proposes to carry out an act. Indeed, in reality, their own love, it must be for him subjectively, most likely, and this doubt is spread over all else, moving preferentially on the most trivial and indifferent. He who doubts his love has to doubt everything else less important.

Psychoanalysis is useful for these patients.

If you have one of these symptoms, it is time to consult a psychoanalyst.

"I begin to psychoanalyze, not to cure any past hurt, but to live better in future years." Miguel Oscar Menassa