Obfuscation refers to the inability to think or reason clearly, to have impaired judgment or confused ideas. The anger or shock that a person experiences in a certain situation. Therefore, obfuscation is the situation of distortion of understanding, it could be said that it is a mental disorder of a temporary nature.
Obfuscation is also the name for a vision disorder caused by something that makes vision difficult, such as smoke or a reflection.
Anger is a feeling of great intensity. The anger-dominated individual has an urge that is difficult to control. What produces this reaction affects his reasoning and he cannot calm down because he is dominated by an obsession. His emotional confusion has the typical characteristics of obfuscation.
In a situation of passionate and intense love, it is not easy to think calmly. Psychologists and poets have described love as a form of mental alienation. In fact, passionate love is known as blind love, in the sense that reality is ignored and one lives in a state of oblivion. If love is not reciprocal, the shame can be even greater, reaching extreme situations (not being hungry, deep depression or doing something crazy before the despair you feel). The fascination of love is, therefore, a clear manifestation of obfuscation.
Disorder Obsessive Compulsive is a serious mental illness. The sufferer has an uncontrolled and obsessive inclination towards something. It can manifest itself in the form of mental rituals, repetitive actions, aggressive ideas, unwarranted fears, and other similar patterns. This disorder is also a form of obfuscation, since the affected person is deeply disturbed in his understanding.
Obfuscation, on the other hand, can be something that masks a thought or message, making it difficult to understand. This meaning is frequent in the field of computer science, with reference to a modification that is developed in the source code of some software to make it more difficult to read.
When looking for the obfuscation of a code, the objective is to hinder the task of engineers when interpreting it. Therefore, it is difficult to access the original code after an obfuscation process.