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→"Compulsion to Repeat"
For [[Freud]], the "[[repetition|compulsion to repeat]]" -- also referred to as the "[[repetition|repetition compulsion]]" (''[[Wiederholungszwang]]'') -- is related to the '''[[death drive]]''' and the ''[[desire]] to [[return]] to an inorganic state''.
The "[[repetition|compulsion to repeat]]" refers to the tendency of the [[subjectpatient]] to expose himself again and again to a distressing or painful situation, although he cannot recall has [[memory|forgotten]] of [[scene|origins]] of the ''prototypical experience'' that is being [[repetition|compulsively repeatedcompulsion]].
=====Jacques Lacan=====