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<blockquote>Endeavors to make the [[psychic ]] [[trauma ]] [[real]]-to live through once more a [[repetition ]] of it; if it was an early [[affective ]] [[relationship ]] it is revived in an analogous connection with [[another ]] person. <ref>{{M&M}} Part III, Section I</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>We are able to postulate the [[principle ]] of a ''repetition-[[compulsion]]'' in the [[unconscious ]] [[mind]], based upon [[instinctual ]] [[activity ]] and probably inherent in the very [[nature ]] of the [[instincts]]-a principle powerful enough to overrule the pleasureprinciple, lending to certain aspects of the mind their daemonic [[character]], and still very clearly expressed in the tendencies of small [[children]]; a principle, too, which is [[responsible ]] for a part of the course taken by the [[analyses ]] of [[neurotic ]] [[patients]]. <ref>{{Uncanny}}</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>We may assume that as soon as a given [[state ]] of things is upset there arises an [[instinct ]] to recreate it, and phenomena appear which we may call "repetition-compulsion." <ref>{{NILP}} Ch. 4</ref></blockquote>