Library / Feelings

For when you feel

Obsession / Idealization

Fixating on someone or something and seeing it as more perfect than it is.

68 picks matched to this feeling

Films

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  (500) Days of Summer
  Film · 2009
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  Before Sunset
  Film · 2004
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  Anomalisa
  Film · 2015
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  Ruby Sparks
  Film · 2012
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  Chungking Express
  Film · 1994

TV shows

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  Black Mirror
  TV · 2011–present
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  Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
  TV · 2015–2019
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  Homeland
  TV · 2011–2020

Documentary

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  Fire of Love
  Documentary · 2022

Books

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  Dom Casmurro
  Book · 1899
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  First Love
  Book · 1860
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  Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
  Book · 2019
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  The Yellow Wallpaper
  Book · 1892
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  Bleak House
  Book · 1852–1853
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  The Doll
  Book · 1887–1889 (serialized); 1890
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  Layla and Majnun
  Book · 1188
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  Looking for Alaska
  Book · 2005
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  María
  Book · 1867
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  Moby-Dick
  Book · 1851
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  One Hundred Years of Solitude
  Book · 1967
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  Oscar and Lucinda
  Book · 1988
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  Poems and Fragments
  Book · c. 600 BCE
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  Rebecca
  Book · 1938
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  The Red and the Black
  Book · 1830
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  The Sea, the Sea
  Book · 1978
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  Solaris
  Book · 1961
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  The Tale of Genji
  Book · c. 1010
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  The Tunnel
  Book · 1948
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  Vanity Fair
  Book · 1847–1848
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  Wuthering Heights
  Book · 1847
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  Paper Towns
  Book · 2008
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  Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love
  Book · 1979
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  The Great Gatsby
  Book · 1925
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  Smitten: Romantic Obsession, the Neuroscience of Limerence, and How to Make Love Last
  Book · 2026
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  The Idiot
  Book · 2017
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  How to Fix a Broken Heart
  Book · 2018
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  Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
  Book · 2019

Game

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  The Beginner's Guide
  Game · 2015

Songs

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  Clean
  Song · 2014
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  Motion Sickness
  Song · 2017
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  The Night We Met
  Song · 2015
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  When You Were Young
  Song · 2006
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  Mr. Brightside
  Song · 2001
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  Gorecki
  Song · 1996
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  Two Weeks
  Song · 2014
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  Obsesión
  Song · 2002
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  Pink Triangle
  Song · 1996
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  Every Breath You Take
  Song · 1983
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  Pictures of You
  Song · 1990
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  Supercut
  Song · 2017
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  All Mine
  Song · 1997
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  Across the Sea
  Song · 1996
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  Can't Do Without You
  Song · 2014
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  Mad About You
  Song · 2000
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  Power Trip
  Song · 2013
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  Girl Crush
  Song · 2014
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  Communication Breakdown
  Song · 1970
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  obsessed
  Song · 2024
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  I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
  Song · 2024
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  ceilings
  Song · 2022

Albums

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  Igor
  Album · 2019
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  Red (Taylor's Version)
  Album · 2021

Podcasts

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  Life Kit: Overcoming romantic obsession
  Podcast · 2025
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  Sex and Psychology Podcast: Letting Go Of Someone You Can't Let Go Of (Ep. 471)
  Podcast · 2026
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  Science Vs: Heartbreak: Why It Feels So Achy Breaky
  Podcast · 2024

Videos

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  How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED
  Video · 2017
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  The brain in love | Helen Fisher
  Video · 2008

Book chapter

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  Swann's Way: Swann in Love (Part Two)
  Book chapter · 1913