Comment On The Silicon Curtain. Traumatic Legacies and a Break into Reality in a Brave Digital World By Andreas Hamburger17

In order to illustrate the repetition compulsion, “this eternal return of the same”, Freud evoked Torquato Tasso's poem, La Gerusalemme liberata19, and the fact that Tancred kills Clorinda, at war, unaware that under the enemy's armor right in front of him was the woman he loved. After her burial, Tancred enters a magic forest, he slashes with his sword a tall tree; but blood streams from the cut and the voice of Clorinda, whose soul was imprisoned in the tree, is heard complaining that he has wounded his beloved once again (Freud, 1920, p. 21; Tasso, , canto XIII).

Michel de M'Uzan moves forward in his reflection on repetition, operating a distinction between being the same and identical. He believes that when the protagonist, Tancred, slashes the tree where the soul of his beloved was dwelling, rather than repeating his former action identically, he does the same thing in a different way: from a figure of a plain fact, he comes to a symbolic representation of the fact. The same is repeated accompanied by an elaboration, while the identical implies the absence of elaboration or rewriting the past. The former is marked by the principle of pleasure and desire, while the latter is marked by the principle of

inertia and Nirvana, resuming a certain thing, for example, through some sort of imitating a characteristic perceived in the