Repetition is the general characteristic of the signifying chain, the manifestation of the unconscious in every subject, and transference is only a very special form of repetition (i.e. it is repetition within psychoanalytic treatment), which cannot simply be equated with the repetition compulsion itself. <ref>S8, 208</ref>
[[Category{{FFC}}:Terms]]repetition, repeating (''Wiederholen''), 12, 19, 33, 39-40, 48-51, 53-4, 58, 60-2, 67-9, 79-80, 127-8, 143, 239, 263 [[Category:Concepts]]: ''automaton'' (return, insistence of signs), 52-64, 67 [[Category:Psychoanalysis]]: repetition and the arbitrary (''Zufall''), 39, 45 [[Category:Jacques Lacan]]: repetition-compulsion (''Wiederholungszwang''), 56, 67 :: reproduction and repetition, 50, 54 :: return (''Wiederkehr''), 48-9
