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Now commonly termed an obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessional neurosis can involve a range of experiences including persistant, unwelcome thoughts; the need to perform a certain action or set of actions at a particular time or in a particular way; and constant checking (of door locks, the stove, one's bank account balance). These behaviors are often accompanied by a pervasive sense of guilt and anxiety. The account of the Rat Man is Freud's most famous description of a case of obsessional neurosis.

• Baldwin, James Mark
• Bosch, Hieronymus
• Bühler, Charlotte
• Caillois, Roger
• Freud, Anna
• Hegel, G.W.F.
• Köhler, Wolfgang
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude
• Wallon, Henri

• Aha-Erlebnis
• anxiety
• captation
• Cogito
• defenses of the ego
• fragmented body
• Gestalt
• Ideal-I
• identification
• imago
• Innenwelt
• legendary psychasthenia
• libido
• méconnaissance
• mirror stage
• neurosis
• object
• obsession
• other
• Oedipus complex
• perception-consciousness
  system
• phobia
• primary narcissism
• psychosis
• subject
• transitivism
• Umwelt
• Verneinung