Monday, July 8, 2013

Why Do We Repeat the Past?


                                                    “If you can’t repeat your past…
                                         What then are ‘mistakes’ which become [habitual]
                                      Are they not of the past? Isn’t it repetition? I daresay…!” 

                                                         ~ Merlana Krishna Raymond


Humans seek comfort in the familiar. Freud called this repetition compulsion, which he famously defined as “the desire to return to an earlier state of things.”

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