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=====Jacques Lacan=====
[[Lacan]]'s notion of the "'''[[repetition|insistence]] of the [[letter]]'''", or of the [[repetition|compulsive repetition]] of certain [[signifier]]s or [[letter]]s despite the [[subject]]'s [[consciousness|conscious attempts]] to [[repression|repress]] them, is a [[development]] of [[Freud]]'s "[[repetition|compulsion to repeat]]", but it is also influenced by the idea of "'''[[repetition|automatisme de répétition]]'''" ("[[repetition|repetition automatism]]"), which, in the French psychiatric tradition of Pierre Janet, refers to the [[repetition|compulsive repetition]] or [[repetition|reproduction]] of an [[complex|internalized social structure]].
[[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 [[school]] of [[psychiatry]] in which he was first trained.
=====Complex=====
In [[Lacan]]'s pre-1950s work, the concept of [[repetition]] is linked with that of the [[complex]] - an internalised social [[structure]] which the [[subject]] repeatedly and compulsively re-enacts.
