The analytic obsession, as manifested in the case of Freud, consists in the analyst’s perceived necessity to account for the workings of the unconscious or overcome resistances. The analyst also enjoys his symptom, and he differs from the analysand only in that the latter cannot see that the analyst enjoys, since the analytic setting makes the analyst’s anxiety undetectable.

It's been a while since a serious theoretic effort has been dedicated to the study of obsessional neurosis. Yet, it is precisely the obsession that shapes contemporary subjectivity in a way that it provides it with a dimension of historicity. To understand what is going on with the subject today implies analyzing the relations of neurotic with his own neurosis. Denisuyk's article follows this trajectory.