Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
Quotes about obsessional (4 Quotes)
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.
To this day the more conventional biologists suffer from an obsessional fear of anthropomorphism, and even put such words as 'hunger' and 'fear' between quotes (a literary solecism in any case) when writing about animals. The quotes are a way of saying 'I cannot get on without Anthropomorphism, but I am ashamed to be seen with her in public'.