The loss of this balance through frontal-lobe damage can "release" impulsive behaviors, obsessive ideas, and overwhelming feelings and compulsions.
Despite his broad intellectual sweep, he was prey to obsessive ideas such as that the British foreign minister, Lord Palmerston, was an agent of the Russian government.
Obsessive ideas may include recurrent violent or obscene thoughts; compulsive behaviour includes rituals such as repetitive hand washing or door locking.
He has the misfortune of being the last surviving son of a father, Nathaniel Richard Poee), with inflexible if not obsessive ideas about manliness and how it is expressed by members of their class.
Even more revealing, both Shostakovich concertos are characteristically driven by the aggressive yet unpredictable repetition of one or two obsessive ideas, little motifs, smaller than tunes, almost like what pop musicians call hooks.
The obsessive thought is the idea about her mother's weight.
"All along, I've had this obsessive, delusional idea that I could somehow be outside culture, which is, of course, patently absurd," he said.
Imagine a Venn diagram depicting, in one circle, the kind of tragic car nerds who spend their holidays in Italy peering through fences at red cars lapping race tracks and, in the other, gluttonous food obsessives whose idea of a dream mini-break is a day-long patisserie crawl broken only by reservations at three-star restaurants.
(panic attacks) □ Did or does he/she suffer from obsessive-compulsive ideas or actions?
