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The collective term 'anancasm' is used to include compulsive, obsessive and phobic symptoms and character traits. Three cases are presented in which the patients' 'anancasms' are illustrated. Such traits may be nonconstructive,
purely symptomatic, or may be socially constructive. The article ignores the dynamics or mechanisms of the 'anancasm'.