#mental fixation
- Prior preoccupation — An early preoccupation, conceptual fixation, preliminary obsession, or mental state in which an individual's thoughts are occupied in advance by a certain subject, problem, or activity before it actually occurs or becomes a current reality. It represents an anticipatory psychological orientation, often generating structural anxiety.
- Prior preoccupation — An archaic, legal, or literary variant of the noun 'anteocupație', denoting an early preoccupation, conceptual fixation, or mental state in which an individual's thoughts are captured in advance by a subject or problem before it becomes a current reality. The term is found in philosophical translations and psychological essays from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, patterned after classical Latin suffixation.