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Hysteria vs Obsession - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between hysteria and obsession

is that hysteria is behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic while obsession is a compulsive or irrational preoccupation.

hysteria

Noun

  • Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.
  • (medicine) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
  • * '>citation
  • The typical cases of hysteria cited by Freud thus involved a
    moral conflict—a conflict about what the young women in
    question wanted to do with themselves. Did they want to
    prove that they were good daughters by taking care of their
    sick fathers? Or did they want to become independent of their
    parents, by having a family of their own, or in some other
    way? I believe it was the tension between these conflicting
    aspirations that was the crucial issue in these cases. The sexual
    problem—say, of the daughter's incestuous cravings for her
    father—was secondary (if that important); it was stimulated,
    perhaps, by the interpersonal situation in which the one had to
    attend to the other's body. Moreover, it was probably easier to
    admit the sexual problem to consciousness and to worry about
    it than to raise the ethical problem indicated.3 In the final
    analysis, the latter is a vastly difficult problem in living. It
    cannot be "solved" by any particular maneuver but requires
    rather decision making about basic goals, and, having made
    the decisions, dedicated efforts to attain them.

    Synonyms

    * (mental disorder) female hysteria

    Derived terms

    * anxiety hysteria * conversion hysteria * ecohysteria * female hysteria * mass hysteria

    obsession

    English

    Noun

  • A compulsive or irrational preoccupation.
  • An unhealthy fixation.
  • Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.
  • * 1973 , Jessie Penn-Lewis, Evan Roberts, War on the Saints , ISBN 0913926043.
  • if an evil spirit counterfeits the presence of God, and comes upon'' the man as an influence only, it may be described as obsession ; but when a footing is gained ''in him, it is "possession," because the obsessing spirits have gained access, and possess the ground they hold, up to the extent of the ground given.
  • * 1999 , Mary E. McDonough, God's Plan of Redemption , page 85, ISBN 0736307184.
  • They should see that a perception of their identification with the Victor of Calvary is absolutely necessary if they are to constantly and victoriously resist the obsession of evil spirits.
  • * 2007 , James E. Padgett, The Teachings of Jesus , page 100, ISBN 1430303913.
  • It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil—that is evil spirits of men who once lived on earth—and this obsession may become so complete and powerful that the living mortal may lose all power to resist this influence of the evil spirits...

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