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=====Sigmund Freud=====
====="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 [[subject]] to expose himself again and again to a distressing or painful situation, although he cannot recall the ''prototypical experience '' that is being [[repetition|compulsively repeated]]. The [[subject]] suffering from a "[[repetition|compulsion to repeat]]" repeatedly places himself in a distressing or painful situation, but cannot recall the prototypical experience that is being [[repetition|compulsively repeated]]. ======Treatment======[[Freud]] posited the [[existence]] of a basic [[repetition|compulsion to repeat]] in order to explain certain clinical data: namely, the tendency of the [[subject]] to expose himself again and again to distressing situations.
It is a basic principle of [[psychoanalysis]] that a person is only condemned to [[repetition|repeat]] something when he has forgotten the origins of the compulsion, and that [[psychoanalytic treatment]] can therefore break the cycle of [[repetition]] by helping the [[patient]] [[remember]].
