Obsessive Neurosis in the Sigmund Freud Approach

Obsessive neurosis manifests itself through conjuration rites,obsessing symptoms, and permanent mental rumination, in whichscruples and doubts interfere with action. It was the Frenchpsychiatrist Jules Falret (1824-1902) who used the term obsessionto highlight the fact that the subject is affected by pathological ideasand a guilt that obsesses and persecutes him, to the point of beingpejoratively compared to a living dead. The term obsession wastranslated into German by Richard Von Krafft Ebing, who madethe choice to use the word Zwangsneurose, which refers to an ideaof coercion and compulsion, in which the subject is obliged to actand think against his will. But it was Freud who had the merit ofconferring a theoretical and unpublished content on the old obsessionclinic [1].