Common obsessive themes include fear of contamination, fears about being responsible for harming the self or others, doubts, and orderliness.

The later novel is a deeply affecting, often painful study of father-son relations - another of Oz's obsessive themes.

Nowhere else did Hitchcock's perfectionism yield such feverish results, in an eerily perverse exploration of this director's obsessive themes.

But he thought they carried the obsessive red and white theme too far.

The suffering of innocent people and death become almost obsessive theme for Rein, as they are illustrated in his works.

There are cuts that they return to again and again, immediately identifiable silhouettes that they own and obsessive personal themes that they can't escape.

A second moving story, "Oldfashioned," treats another of the author's obsessive themes, the conflict between fathers and sons.

These were the obsessive themes of the romantic Belbo, disappointed, grieving, drunk.

And she analyzes Kahlo's obsessive themes - her visceral relationships with nature and other humans - in light of the artist's struggles with pain and being female.