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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 [[patient]] to expose himself again and again to a distressing or painful [[situation]], although he has [[memory|forgotten]] of [[scene|origins]] of the [[repetition|compulsion]].

[[Lacan]] expands upon [[Freud]]'s [[concept ]] of the "[[repetition|compulsion to repeat]]" in various ways.

He borrows the term "'''[[repetition|automatisme de répétition]]'''" ("[[repetition|repetition automatism]]") from [[French]] [[psychiatry]]<ref>[[Lacan]]'s tendency to use "'''[[repetition|automatisme de répétition]]'''" as a [[translation ]] of [[Freud]]'s ''[[Wiederholungszwang]]'' is a reminder of how much he owes to the [[French]] [[school]] of [[psychiatry]] in which he was first trained.</ref> to refer to the ''[[repetition|compulsive repetition]] or [[repetition|reproduction]] of an [[complex|internalized social structure]] which the [[subject]] '''repeatedly''' and '''compulsively''' re-enacts.''.

[[Lacan]] also defines [[repetition]] as the "'''[[insistence of the letter]]'''" (''[[l'instance de la lettre]]''), that is, as ''the [[repetition|compulsive repetition]] of certain '''[[signifier]]s''' or '''[[letter]]s''' despite the [[subject]]'s [[consciousness|conscious attempts]] to [[repression|repress]] [[them]]''.

Certain [[signifier]]s insist on returning in the [[life ]] of the [[subject]], despite the [[resistance]]s which block them.

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======Transference======The [[repetition|compulsion to repeat]] is often [[acting out|acted out]], the [[repetition|repetition compulsion]] manifests itself, in the [[transference]], whereby the [[analysand]] repeats in his [[relationship ]] to the [[analyst]] certain attitudes which characterised his earlier relationships with his [[parents ]] and [[others]].  [[Freud]] establishes an important distinciton between the [[repetition|compulsive repetition]] of [[material]] that has not been mastered or [[understood]], and the [[recollection]], verbalization and [[working]]-through characteristic of the [[talking cure]].

[[FreudLacan]] establishes an important distinciton between the lays great emphasis on this [[repetition|compulsive repetitionsymbolic]] aspect of material that has not been mastered or understood[[transference]], and distinguishing it from the recollection, verbalization and working-through characteristic [[imaginary]] [[dimension]] of [[transference]] (the [[talking cureaffect]]s of [[love]] and [[hate]]).<ref>{{S8}} p.204</ref>

However, [[Lacan]] lays great emphasis on this points out that although the [[symbolicrepetition|repetition compulsion]] aspect of manifests itself perhaps most clearly in the [[transference]], distinguishing it from is not in itself limited to the [[imaginarytransference]] dimension ; in itself, "the concept of repetition has [[transferencenothing]] (to do with the [[affect]]s concept of [[love]] and [[hate]])transference."<ref>{{S8S11}} p.20433</ref>

However, [[LacanRepetition]] is the general characteristic of the [[signifying chain]] points out that although , the manifestation of the [[repetition|repetition compulsionunconscious]] manifests itself perhaps most clearly in the every [[subject]], and [[transference]], is only a very special [[form]] of [[repetition]] (i.e. it is not in itself limited to the [[transferencerepetition]] within [[psychoanalytic treatment]]; in itself), "which cannot simply be equated with the concept of [[repetition|repetition has nothing to do with the concept of transferencecompulsion]] itself."<ref>{{S11S8}} p. 33208</ref>

<blockquote>It is quite common, for example, to hear it said that the [[Repetitiontransference]] is the general characteristic a form of the [[signifying chainrepetition]]. I am not saying that this is untre, the manifestation or that there is not an element of [[repetition]] in the [[unconscioustransference]] in every . I am not saying that it is not on the basis of his [[subjectexperience]], and of the [[transference]] is only a very special form of that [[Freud]] approached [[repetition]] (i.e. it What I am saying is that the concept of [[repetition]] within has nothing to do with the concept of [[psychoanalytic treatmenttransference]]). Because of this confusion, which cannot simply I am obliged to go through this explanation at the outset, to lay down the necessary [[logical]] steps. For to follow [[chronology]] would be equated with to encourage the ambiguities of the concept of [[repetition|repetition compulsion]] itselfthat derive from the fact that its discovery took [[place]] in the course of the first hesistant steps necessitated by the experience of the [[transference]]. "<ref>{{S8S11}} p. 20833</ref></blockquote>

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 {{FFC}}: repetition, repeating (''Wiederholen''), 12, 19, 33, 39-40, 48-51, 53-4, 58, 60-2, 67-9, 79-80, 127-8, 143, 239, 263 :: ''automaton'' (return, insistence of signs), 52-64, 67 :: repetition and the arbitrary (''Zufall''), 39, 45 :: repetition-compulsion (''Wiederholungszwang''), 56, 67 :: reproduction and repetition, 50, 54 :: return (''[[Wiederkehr''), 48-9 </div>