In most of these cases we speak of psychological obsessions or fixations. |
Putting his characters on the rostrum he sends up everything from the contextual pieties of the new historicists to the gender fixations of the post-feminists. |
We eat candy bars as fast as we can peel them to appease our oral fixations and our need for a fix. |
Selective eye fixations during transfer of discriminative stimulus control. |
Not often do plungers sprinkle their market fixations with references to Dante and Homer. |
It might have been tougher for him 200 years ago, when they hadn't learned to decondition children early from parental fixations. |