What is the "compulsion to repeat"?
(a) the impulse to keep doing the thing that scares you -- in an effort to master the fear
(b) the wish to make the same mistake twice, and be forgiven
(c) the reason why Hitler copied Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia
(d) the need to repeat the same futile action and the madness of expecting a different result
(e) the rhetorical strategy of using the same word (or an anagram of it) in every sentence of a paragraph
-- DL
(a) the impulse to keep doing the thing that scares you -- in an effort to master the fear; though studies have shown that one doesn't always achieve "mastery" of the situation.
Posted by: Danielle E Chin | April 07, 2014 at 01:53 AM
(c) the reason why Hitler copied Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia
Posted by: Chang Yao | April 09, 2014 at 11:04 AM
(a) the impulse to keep doing the thing that scares you -- in an effort to master the fear (The re-living can also take the form of dreams. And I agree with Danielle, the intention of mastery is not always achieved of even sought after)
Posted by: Lauren Berninger | April 09, 2014 at 11:06 AM
A - repeat in order to master
Posted by: AC Evensen | April 09, 2014 at 02:29 PM
(a) the impulse to keep doing the thing that scares you -- in an effort to master the fear
Posted by: Tonianne Bellomo | April 09, 2014 at 05:31 PM
(a) the impulse to keep doing the thing that scares you -- in an effort to master the fear
Posted by: Codie Steensma | April 09, 2014 at 07:49 PM
(f) To repeat something is an attempt to show the self and other
the mistake made at first wasn’t a mistake at all.
also
(g (if there is one?)) All of thee Above
Posted by: Samir Benouar | April 10, 2014 at 12:47 AM