Obsession may refer to:

Psychology

  • Celebrity worship syndrome, obsessive addictive disorder to a celebrity's personal and professional life
  • Obsession (psychology), a persistent attachment to an object or idea
  • Fixation (psychology), persistence of anachronistic sexual traits
  • Idée fixe (psychology), a preoccupation of mind believed to be firmly resistant to any attempt to modify it
  • Obsessive love, attempts to possess or control an individual and inability to accept disinterest or rejection
  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder, a mental disorder triggering obsessive thoughts

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Obsession (1949 film), a British thriller also released as The Hidden Room
  • Obsession (1954 film), a French-language crime drama
  • Obsession (1976 film), a psychological thriller/mystery directed by Brian De Palma
  • Obsession (1997 film), a Franco-German drama starring Daniel Craig
  • Obsession (2008 film), a Russian film starring Denis Matrosov
  • Obsession (2011 film), a film by Cameroonian director Achille Brice
  • Obsession (2015 film), the American title of Dutch film Rendez-Vous starring Loes Haverkort
  • Obsession (2022 film), a Nigerian drama
  • Obsession (2025 film), an American horror film
  • Ossessione ("Obsession"), a 1943 Italian crime drama
  • Junoon (1978 film) ("The Obsession"), a 1979 Indian drama film by Shyam Benegal
  • Circle of Two, 1981 Canadian drama also distributed as Obsession
  • Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, 2005 documentary

Games

  • Obsession (video game), a pinball game for the Atari STe and Amiga computers

Literature

  • Obsession (book), 1998 nonfiction book by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker
  • Obsession (novel), 2007 Alex Delaware novel by Jonathan Kellerman
  • Obsession (novella), 1992 novella by Filipino writer, F. Sionil José
  • Obsession, 2009 novel by Gloria Vanderbilt
  • Obsession, 1962 novel by Lionel White

Music

Performers

  • Obsesión (Cuban band), Cuban hip-hop duo
  • Obsession (band), a metal band

Albums

  • Obsession (Lionel Loueke album), with Céline Rudolph, 2017
  • Obsession (Atomic Forest album), 2011
  • Obsession (Blue System album), 1990
  • Obsession (Bob James album), 1986
  • Obsession (Boyfriend EP), 2014
  • Obsession (Dive EP), 1995
  • Obsession (Eighteen Visions album), 2004
  • Obsession (Exo album), 2019
  • Obsession (Rachelle Ann Go album), 2007
  • Obsession (Shayne Ward album), 2010
  • Obsession (UFO album), 1978
  • Obsession (Wallace Roney album), 1991
  • Obsesiones, 1992 album by Mexican singer Yuri
  • Obsession, 1994 album by Éric Lapointe

Songs

  • "Obsesión" (Aventura song), a 2002 song by Aventura
  • "Obsession (I Love You)", a 2003 song by Amiel Daemion on the album Audio Out
  • "Obsession" (Michael Des Barres & Holly Knight song), 1983 covered by Animotion, 1984
  • "Obsession" (Army of Lovers song), 1991
  • "Obsession" (Exo song), 2019
  • "Obsession" (Nudimension song), 1984
  • "Obsession" (Shayne Ward song), 2011
  • "Obsession" (Sky Ferreira song), 2010
  • "Obsession" (Tich song), 2013
  • "Obsession" (Tiësto song), 2002
  • "Obsessions", by Suede, 2002
  • "Obsessions" (Marina and the Diamonds song), 2009
  • "Obsession", by Delirious? on the album Cutting Edge Fore
  • "Obsession", by G-Dragon on the album GD & TOP
  • "Obsession", by Kylie Minogue from Body Language
  • "Obsession", by OK Go on the album Hungry Ghosts
  • "Obsession", by Scorpions on the album Eye II Eye
  • "Obsession", by See-Saw, the opening theme of the series .hack//Sign
  • "Obsession", by Shinee on the album Lucifer
  • "Obsession", by Siouxsie & The Banshees on the album A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
  • "Obsession", by Sukha and Tegi Pannu, 2023
  • "Obsession", by Cabaret Voltaire on The Voice of America
  • "Obsession", by Xymox
  • "Obsession", by Minnie on the extended play Her, 2025

Television

  • Obsession (2014 TV series), a 2014 Filipino medical drama
  • Obsession (2023 TV series), based on the novel Damage by Josephine Hart

Episodes

  • "Obsession" (CSI: NY), 2007
  • "Obsession" (NCIS), 2010
  • "Obsession" (Sliders), 1996
  • "Obsession" (Smallville), 2004
  • "Obsession" (Star Trek: The Original Series), 1967
  • "Obsession" (Superman: The Animated Series), 1998
  • "Obsession" (Third Watch), 2004
  • "Obsession" (X-Men: The Animated Series), 1994

Other uses

  • Obsession (perfume) by Calvin Klein
  • Obsession (Spiritism), interference of a subjugating spirit with a weaker spirit in Spiritism
  • Obsession Telescopes, an American telescope manufacturer

See also

  • Fixation (disambiguation)
  • Obsessed (disambiguation)
  • Obsesión (disambiguation)