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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]] uses the term "'''expands upon [[repetition|automatisme de répétitionFreud]]'''" ("s [[repetition|repetition automatismconcept]]"), which, in the French psychiatric tradition of Pierre Janet, refers to the "[[repetition|compulsive repetitioncompulsion to repeat]] or [[repetition|reproduction]] of ''an [[complex|internalized social structure]]''" in various ways.

=====Insistence of the Letter=====Thus [[Lacan]] also defines [[repetition]] is -- now defined -- as the "'''[[insistenceof the letter]] of the '''" (''[[signifierl'instance de la lettre]]''), that is, or as ''the [[insistencerepetition|compulsive repetition]] of the certain '''[[signifying chainsignifier]], s''' or the '''[[insistenceletter]] of s''' despite the [[lettersubject]] (''l'instance de la lettres [[consciousness|conscious attempts]] to [[repression|repress]] [[them]]''). <blockquote>"[[Repetition ]] is fundamentally the [[insistence ]] of [[speech]]."<ref>{{S3}} p. 242</ref></blockquote>

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

=====''Jouissance''=====In the 1960s, [[repetition]] is redefined as the [[return]] of ''Jouissance[[jouissance]]'', an [[excess]] of [[enjoyment]] which [[return]]s again and again to [[transgress]] the limits of the [[pleasure principle]] and seek [[death]].<ref>{{S17}} p. 51</ref> =====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]].

In [[Freud]] establishes an important distinciton between the 1960s, [[repetition|compulsive repetition]] is redefined as the return of ''[[jouissancematerial]]'', an excess of that has not been mastered or [[enjoymentunderstood]] which returns again , and again to the [[transgressrecollection]] the limits of the , verbalization and [[pleasure principleworking]] and seek -through characteristic of the [[deathtalking cure]].<ref>{{S17}} p.51</ref>

======Transference======The [[repetition|repetition compulsionLacan]] manifests itself in lays great emphasis on this [[treatment|analytic treatmentsymbolic]] in the aspect of [[transference]], whereby distinguishing it from the [[analysandimaginary]] [[dimension]] repeats in his relationship to of [[transference]] (the [[analystaffect]]s of [[love]] certain attitudes which characterised his earlier relationships with his parents and others[[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>