And yesterday the so-called "Adonis complex", an obsession with matching society's idea of the perfect male body, was being discussed at a British Psychological Society conference in Brighton.
Is it a deep-seated inferiority complex or an obsession with perfection?
Did somebody say "self-loathing teenager with an inferiority complex and an obsession with James Dean"? Sounds like me in high school!
At her middle-class apartment complex, testing is an obsession for families of high school students.
The latest step in the Bay Area's slow-food obsession, the complex officially opens June 14, with rotating guest chefs, a spa, adventure programs and an eagerly awaited restaurant.
Muller said in 1981: "For 30 years Hamlet was a real obsession for me, so I tried to destroy him by writing... 'Hamletmachine.' German history was another obsession and I tried to destroy this obsession, this whole complex.
Why: Fans of his films know Lynch is no stranger to symbolism; the exhibit explores his career-long obsession with the complex relationship between objects and their names.
One of Mr. Transtromer's abiding interests — obsessions, almost — is the complex nature of identity and the difficulty of safeguarding something so difficult to describe or analyze.
Now, ten years later, O'Reilly has become baroque, and "The O'Reilly Factor" is a complex affair, dense with self-references, obsessions, and elaborations, even though it still delivers a satisfying punch.
Their complex and passionate relationship, a mutual obsession based on separation, is set against the merciless landscape of Voss's trek towards oblivion.
