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Transferring to Transference
The repetition compulsion is expressed in the transference, where the client repeats behavior patterns with his therapist that occur in othe
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As If . . . It's not Just a Valley Girl Expression.
Chapelle (1993) says that the compulsion to repeat imaginatively, as in the Fort-Da game, is a compulsion to repeat by means of a likeness,
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You Can Learn a lot From a Game—The Ooh and Ahh Behind Fort-Da!
hapelle (1993) begins by discussing the repetition compulsion as a concrete example of the eternal return. Chapelle's discussion of Freud’s
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Importance of Origins
Depth psychology recognizes the importance of going back to origins, to childhood, to word origins, and to the enduring archetypal images fo
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Depth Psychology’s Preoccupations and Praxis
Chapelle (1993) in his book Nietzsche and Psychoanalysis discusses at length how the eternal return appears in psychoanalysis.
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Nietzsche’s Notion
Nietzsche’s Zararathustra is the teacher and advocate of the eternal return, “that everything that has ever been, and that is will return et
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Paradox to the Rescue
We can leap out of time and therefore arrest its flow through paradox, which is only fitting, for remember that paradox got us into this mes
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Here We Go Again—The Eternal Return
Shiva, the dancing god of death and rebirth, who dances the continual destruction and renewal of the universe is perhaps the ultimate symbol
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An Ouroboric Perspective and The Limitations Of Linearity
Linear time and linear perspective have dominated the modern world until the turn of the Twentieth Century, when we started looking at thing
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