| 单词 | repetition compulsion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrepetition compulsion repetition compulsion n. [after German Wiederholungszwang (1921 in the passage translated in quot. 1922)] Psychoanalysis (in Freudian theory) a compulsion characterized by the tendency to place oneself in circumstances or conditions which repeat or recreate a traumatic event from one's past, driven by the desire to gain mastery over the original traumatic event being recreated; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Freud > [noun] > repeated without pleasure repetition compulsion1922 1922 C. J. M. Hubback tr. S. Freud Beyond Pleasure Princ. iv. 38 They obey rather the repetition-compulsion [Ger. Wiederholungszwang], which in analysis, it is true, is supported by the (not unconscious) wish to conjure up again what has been forgotten and repressed. 1940 L. Trilling in Kenyon Rev. 2 170 Freud..first makes the assumption that there is indeed in the psychic life a repetition-compulsion which goes beyond the Pleasure-principle. 1953 A. Koestler in Encounter 1 ii. 28/2 British foreign policy..and French internal politics..seem to be dictated by this kind of repetition-compulsion. 1988 J. Masson Against Therapy (1990) viii. 255 The ‘repetition compulsion’, the need, according to Freud, many people have to repeat old wounds and traumas in order to master them. 2005 M. L. Wender Lament. as Hist. vi. 166 We have seen that Yoko suffers from ‘repetition compulsion’, reproducing certain behaviors with her much older lover, a replacement father. < as lemmas |
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