Concept in Definition ABC

Fix something or fixate on something or someone

The term fixation, in its broadest sense, refers to the action and result of fixing something or fixating on something or someone. "The nail needs a solid fixation, otherwise the painting will fall off"; "Setting the rules turns out to be the hardest part of the game"; "A photograph is the result of fixing an image on paper".

Use in psychoanalysis

On the other hand, in the field of psychoanalysis, the term fixation is of recurrent use, since it is used to refer to the linkage of libido to particular individuals or psychic representations of objects.
The popular Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, creator of Psychoanalysis, argued that fixation causes the libido to become strongly attached to people or representations, generating a mode of satisfaction. The fixation can be located and remain in a phase of the individual or inscribe certain contents representative, such as experiences, which will persist in the unconscious of the same way unalterable.

Synonym of obsession

Also, in ordinary and informal language the word fixation is usually used to account for a obsession, that is, as a synonym for it. "What Juan has with María is undoubtedly a fixation, which has nothing to do with love."

What is obsession? Effects and consequences

Obsession acts on the psyche of the person who suffers from it in a disturbing way of her mood and is characterized because a fixed idea about something or someone appears in a recurring way in the mind. That is, our mind is constantly thinking, without stopping on some topic or person, while that thought it appears but at odds with conscious thought and persists beyond the deliberate intention of wanting to get rid of it, that it disappears.

Always, without exceptions, the obsession will cause compulsive and distressing behavior in the sufferer. If there is no treatment and if the obsession lasted a long time, a known neurosis will be triggered clinically as obsessive compulsive disorder that of course will complicate the development of the normal life of the affected.

The obsession can be oriented to objects, situations or people, among others... It can refer to a person, that is, the obsession with someone who cannot be had, who was lost for x reason, and then, that lack or absence generates the obsession that can make him not leave from think in it, that their search is promoted and even their follow-up in those most serious cases of obsession.

Another quite frequent obsession in these times is that associated with the physique, not only with thinness but also with the obsession to see more beautiful certain parts of the body that do not conform to the person affected.
In the case of obsession with the body, it is possible that serious pathologies associated with the feeding such as bulimia and anorexia, which cause a distortion of the body image and can lead to the patient not eating or vomiting after binge eating.
And on the other hand, the obsession to look and look better appears and then the person undergoes various plastic surgeries for this, with the consequent danger that this sometimes implies.

Price fixing

For its part, the price fixing It turns out to be the process that a company, company or organization carries out before determining the prices of the products or services it markets. In this analysis that will be carried out, issues such as the cost price (the raw material, the transport, expenses for services, rent, salaries, machinery and maintenance of the same), the politics commercial company, the type of product in question (seasonal, continuously sold, exclusively), the influence of the prices of the competence, among the main issues to consider.