Fixation (psychology) - Cultural Examples

Cultural Examples

  • Tennyson has been claimed to have a 'romantic fixation..."a psychic fixation upon the days that are no more"'.
  • Harold Bloom states that ' Christabel...uses witchcraft as a metaphor for psychological fixation'.
  • The Robbers is driven by a 'psychic fixation on an all too powerful father figure'.

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