Obsessive love disorder

[1][2] Depending on the intensity of their attraction, obsessive lovers may feel entirely unable to restrain themselves from extreme behaviors such as acts of violence toward themselves or others.

[4] Later analysts saw obsessive love as driven more by narcissistic need, the preoccupation with the love-object offering defenses against worries and depressive feelings;[5] while Jungians see it as rooted in the projection of the inner self onto another person.

[6] Marcel Proust dissected (his own style of) obsessive love in À la recherche du temps perdu.

[7] Fatal Attraction shows Alex Forrest's obsessive love for Dan Gallagher after a brief affair.

[8] Bollywood films such as Darr, Anjaam, and Dastak each portray the main villains as obsessive lovers.