ABSTRACT
As I prepared for my contribution to this collective reflection on “Remembering, Repeating and Working-through”, and once I had finished reading (in 2020) the few recent articles explicitly dedicated to this specific Freudian work, I realized I had been magnetized by writings dealing essentially with repetition and its eponym, compulsion. The same thing happened with reading non-psychoanalytic literature. At first, I attributed this attraction to the familiar link between transference and repetition, but although I was rather at home with such “explanation,” it still felt awkward and, as such, “suspicious,” and possibly symptomatic. Be that as it may, the results of my preliminary inroads into the psychoanalytic literature showed that the attention devoted to “Remembering, Repeating and Working-through” is dominated and, in many cases, burdened, by the question of repetition. 1
