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=====Sigmund Freud=====
=====Death Drive"Compulsion to Repeat"=====[[Freud]]'s most important discussion of the "[[repetition|repetition compulsion]]" (''[[Wiederholungszwang]]'') occurs in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]'' (1920) where he links it to the concept of the [[death drive]]. For [[Freud]], the [[repetition|compulsion to repeat]] is related -- also referred to the [[death drive]] and the [[desire]] to [[return]] to an '''inorganic state'''. In ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]'' (1920), [[Freud]] links as the "[[repetition|repetition compulsion to repeat]]" (''[[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]].
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