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At this point I find myself in a rather strange position. One year ago I made a critical analysis of Freud's concept of the repetition compulsion, and of the uses to which it has been put by many different writers. In that study I reached the conclusion that I could find no evidence for the existence of such a compulsion to repeat, whether in Freud's sense, or in the conflicting senses in which it had been used by others. Now, one
year later, I find myself reasoning that an irresistible repetitiveness is the very core of all neurotic processes. Certainly this must seem like a retraction of my previous position; yet I do not believe that it is so.