ABSTRACT
In 1964, in his Seminar ‘The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis’, Lacan (1964/1973) specifies repetition as one of those four concepts. To do this he takes up some ideas formulated by Kierkegaard (a philosopher who has an important presence in this Seminar), which are essential in order to avoid confusion between ‘repetition’ and ‘the reproduction of the same’. Repetition, from the perspective of the Danish philosopher, involves the production of something new, and this is what Lacan will emphasize when establishing the status of this concept in psychoanalysis.
