Quotes About Fixation

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.

It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.

I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.

I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgment from my brain when I get my head set on something. Everything is done at all costs. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense, pretty much.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

What is it, then, that is called a "fixed idea?" An idea that has subjected the man to itself.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

Everyone should have at least one magnificent obsession. It's a life jacket when the ship goes down

I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy.

They become overly fixated on wringing insights out of data that just aren't there, or setting up entirely new information systems, rather than focusing on the information at their disposal and what it really suggests about strategic priorities.

on death pools] This attitude is an unwholesome mix of frivolity and obsession—toying with death even while fixating upon it.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

All serial killers fixate in the latency phase, although they will also fixate in one or more of the other psychosexual phases. They always feel like outsiders.

It is my job as an investigative psychologist to try to decipher the serial killer's particular fantasy from his crime scene. The fantasy will point to the fixation which will give us a key to understanding the killer we are investigating. The better we understand him, the more likely we are to catch him.

His fixation in the Oedipus phase also manifested in his selection of victims. They represented his sister. The female victims were mostly women in the prime of their lives, except for the little girl who happened to be present when Mhlengwa raped her mother. Only the last three victims were in their forties and fifties, indicating that subconsciously his anger had shifted from his sister to his mother.

Another South African serial killer who fixated in the Oedipus phase was the Cape Town Prostitute Killer. He had, however, lost the battle for his mother's affection and felt mentally castrated by her rejection and her preference for other men.

to become a serial killer, a person must have fixated in one or more of the psychosexual developmental phases, which caused a fantasy to evolve in the subconscious.

every human being passes through five psychosexual developmental phases. They are the oral phase, anal phase, Oedipus or phallic phase, latency phase and the genital phase. A person can fixate in any of these phases and failure to resolve the fixation would be cause for pathology. A layman's term for a fixation would be a mental short-circuit. It is an individualistic reaction to being exposed to too much or too little of something.

The fixation he experienced during any of the developmental phases germinates into a fantasy which becomes more defined and more conscious as the child becomes older.

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

You might also see that some of my playlists are simply two songs on repeat fifteen times, like I'm a psycho getting pumped up to murder the president.

I'm not proud of it, and it;s a little embarrassing to write, but sometimes you like the idea of someone so much, you just want to do whatever it takes to make it work.

You trying to make me crazy?" "Everyone needs a hobby.