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The term <i>'[[automaton'</i> is introduced by [[Aristotle]] in the second book of ''Physics''.
[[Lacan]] then employed [[Aristotle]]’s term ''[[automaton]]'' to describe the ‘engine’ of [[repetition]].
''[[Automaton]]'' is usually rendered as ‘spontaneity’ in English translations of [[Aristotle]]’s ''Physics''.
Both ‘spontaneous’ and ‘automatic’ indicate that something in the nature of the event itself triggered its occurrence, as in ‘spontaneous combustion’.
In Lacan’s discourse ''[[automaton]]'' coincided with the insistence of the [[network]] of [[signifier]]s and with [[Freud]]’s [[pleasure principle]].
Such a transformation can only take place if a de-randomizing operator is capable of reducing the chance element.
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