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🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ObsessionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Chasing mythical creatures – A (not-so-sympathetic) critique of entrepreneurship's obsession with unicorn startupsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Das ParfumThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Competitiveness: A Dangerous ObsessionCited 1,023 times
- Go sideways: ObsessedA closely related topic
- Go sideways: ObsesiónA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The quality of being obsessed; an unshakeable feeling that one topic or activity must be pursued above other interests.
Noun An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered.
Noun An activity or entity that inspires a compulsive and potentially unhealthy fixation, or the fixation thereby inspired.
Noun Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession
Fertile Obsession: Validity After Poststructuralism
The self-obsession of T cells: how TCR signaling thresholds affect fate 'decisions' and effector function
Traumatic experience and psychosomatic disease: Exploring the roles of behavioural inhibition, obsession, and confiding.
Two different types of obsession: autogenous obsessions and reactive obsessions
“They Thought It Was an Obsession”: Trajectories and Perspectives of Autistic Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adolescents
Earnings Pressure and Long-Term Corporate Governance: Can Long-Term-Oriented Investors and Managers Reduce the Quarterly Earnings Obsession?
Competitiveness: From a Dangerous Obsession to a Welfare Creating Ability with Positive Externalities
🆕 Influential since 2022
Chasing mythical creatures – A (not-so-sympathetic) critique of entrepreneurship's obsession with unicorn startups
What is obsession? Differentiating obsessive-compulsive disorder and the schizophrenia spectrum
Responsive deep brain stimulation guided by ventral striatal electrophysiology of obsession durably ameliorates compulsion
Effect of analysts' earnings pressure on environmental information disclosure of firms: Can corporate governance alleviate the earnings obsession?
What’s up with our obsession with the theoretical contribution: A means to an end or an end in and of itself?
📚 Books worth reading
Das ParfumPatrick Süskind · 1985
Last Exit to BrooklynHubert Selby, Jr., Hubert Selby Jr. · 1964
Enduring LoveIan McEwan · 1984
Turtles All the Way DownJohn Green · 2017
DamageJosephine Hart · 1991
CrashJ. G. Ballard · 1973
BereniceEdgar Allan Poe · 2004
The boy who couldn't stop washingJudith L. Rapoport · 1989
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Obsessed Look up obsessed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Obsessed may refer to: The Late Edwina Black (American title: Obsessed) a British murder/mystery film…
- Obsesión Obsesión (Spanish "obsession") or plural Obsesiones, may refer to: Obsesión (TV series), 1967 telenovela Obsesión (es), 1996 TV series featuring Santiago…
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- Borderline Look up borderline in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Borderline or Border Line may refer to: Borderline (1930 film), a Swiss film by Kenneth Macpherson…
- Compulsion Look up compelling, compulsion, or compulsory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Compulsion, compulsive, compelling, or compulsory may refer to: Compulsive…
- Ghost (disambiguation) Look up ghost in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ghost is a spirit of a dead person that may appear to the living. Ghost or Ghosts may also refer to:…
- Disorder Look up disorder in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Disorder may refer to randomness, a lack of intelligible pattern, or: Disorder (medicine), a functional…
- Obsesión (Aventura song) "Obsesión" (English: "Obsession") is a song by Dominican-American bachata band Aventura with Judy Santos as the female vocalist. It was included on their…