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In the obsessional patient, affective isolation allows the ego to cut itself off from desire, whereas in psychosis the ego is cut off from reality.
obsessional neurosis Psychol., a disorder in which the main symptom is the occurrence of obsessional thoughts; obsessive-compulsive disorder. obsessional neurotic n. and a. Psychol., (a) adj., a person with an obsessional neurosis; (b) adj., of or relating to obsessional neurosis or obsessional neurotics.
1918 E. JONES Papers on Psych
: an obsessive-compulsive disorder in which obsessive thinking predominates with little need to perform compulsive acts
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