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Quotation from Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
“The act is repeated in spite of everything; a powerful compulsion insists on it”
Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. III, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922)
Freud sums up how analytic patients re-create, in the transference, disappointments that never gave them pleasure: the clinical root of the repetition-compulsion.
Citation: "The act is repeated in spite of everything; a powerful compulsion insists on it" — Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Ch. III, trans. C. J. M. Hubback (1922). (id freud-beyond-the-pleasure-principle-q3)
