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Basing his original thought chiefly in Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle, the author seeks to establish a theory and philosophy of artistic production as arising from the compulsion to repeat, and as first expressed in the near-universal tendency of children to intentionally re-create and repeat traumatic experiences in safety as a way of achieving mastery of the feelings engendered by them.