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In his essay “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920) Freud relates how he observed a boy of around 36 months who had just mastered a few words and basic sounds throwing a wooden reel out of his cot and exclaiming “fort” [“gone”], and then reeling it in and exclaiming “da” [“there”].
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www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=947
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Repetition compulsion or repeating the past involves recreating the same dynamics that we experienced as children. If your childhood was filled with verbal abuse and fear, then you may be more comfortable living with abuse and fear as an ad...
http://behavioural-psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/...
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For Freud, the "compulsion to repeat" -- also referred to as the "repetition compulsion" (Wiederholungszwang) -- is related to the death drive and the desire to return to an inorganic state.
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nosubject.com/Repetition
nosubject.com/Repetition
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To a certain extent, it is through repetition that we are assured of some basic and fundamental continuities—of self-continuity and object relations.
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www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=PCT.012.0265A
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The Repetition Compulsion as Daemoniacal ... In Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), Freud assimilates and then attempts to accommodate his clinical finding of the compulsion to repeat “with its hint of possession by some ‘daemonic’ power” (p. 30). As with the preoperational level of cognitive development described...
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www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=jaa.011.0353a
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From its outward presentation as symptom, Freud traced the repetition compulsion to its vanishing point at the threshold of consciousness. Here the symptom's loss of apparent meaning marked the intervention of repression, a process to which he ascribed a protective function.
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www.mannpsych.com/repComp.html
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/4929329
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Freud's repetition compulsion concept is reviewed and examined critically. ... Freud's repetition compulsion concept is reviewed and examined critically. It has been used as an explanatory concept to cover a wide variety of clinical phenomena similar only in their manifest repetitive quality, and it appears frequently...
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/9494978
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The Repetition Compulsion and the Developmental History ... In 1914 Freud wrote a series of important papers on technique, which remain valuable today. ... The clue to understanding what makes the repetition-compulsion compulsive is the transference. We observe the way the patient treats us in the treatment. If a patient is...
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faculty.etsu.edu/DYER/lectures/The%20Repetition%20Compu...
faculty.etsu.edu/DYER/lectures/The%20Repetition%20Compulsion%20and%20the%20Developmental%20History.html
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