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I describe the connexion between the failure of the procedures of adolescence and the establishment of a psychical economy dominated by the repetition compulsion.
The concept of the repetition compulsion appears as early as in 1914, in 'Remembering, repeating and working-through', but is not clearly specified as a characteristic of instinctual functioning until 1919 and 1920, in 'The "Uncanny"' and 'Beyond the pleasure principle'.