What is this, a display of drawings, or a repetition compulsion?

Freud still wanted to examine the relationship between repetition compulsion and the pleasure principle.

Freud called this the "repetition compulsion," and saw it at the root of all neurosis.

But if quantum reality obtains in the human mind, why does Freud's repetition compulsion continue to work its way?

Why does Heather have a "repetition compulsion" for choosing physically abusive boyfriends?

The myth of the repetition compulsion and the negative therapeutic reaction: An evolutionary biological analysis.

It was in the latter, psychological form that the concept of the repetition compulsion passed into the psychoanalytic mainstream.

He wasn't even the first to see a link between "unconscious repetition compulsion" and a tendency to writer's cramp.

Art is a repetition compulsion, a "compensation."

(Roberta Satow's article on "repetition compulsion" makes interesting reading here: ).

It is as though he were caught in a Sisyphean spell or a Freudian repetition compulsion.

Repetition compulsion is a psychological phenomenon in which a person repeats a traumatic event or its circumstances over and over again.

Freud considered that patients in analysis tended to act out their conflicts in preference to remembering them - repetition compulsion.

Ms. Scarf explores Freud's idea of the "repetition compulsion."

Freud defined a fourth variety, arising from the id, as resistance that requires "working-through" the product of the repetition compulsion.

Opium was for him what wandering and moral tale-telling became for the Mariner - the personal shape of repetition compulsion.

A repetition compulsion twitches gravitationally.

Sigmund Freud - "Repetition compulsion"

"Freud would say it's repetition compulsion, that people feel compelled to repeat powerful emotional experiences," Mr. Martone said.

Repetition compulsions aside, Mr. Masullo has a kind of perfect pitch where the rhythms and meanings of other people's writings are concerned.

Along the way, however, Freud had in addition considered a variety of more purely psychological explanations for the phenomena of the repetition compulsion which he had observed.

By the mid-60's, Ms. Kusama had taken her repetition compulsion into three dimensions, covering such things as armchairs, bathtubs and rowboats with stuffed white pods.

Linking the script to the repetition compulsion, Berne concluded that 'script analysis is then the answer to the problem of human destiny, and tells us (alas!)

In the final story, "Repetition Compulsion", Dr. Loomis tries to predict where Michael will strike next on Halloween, 1989.

It could be seen as a form of repetition compulsion, or equally as a series of private jokes, like Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearances in his own films.