Abstract

The study of traumatic experiences led Freud to investigate what he termed a compulsion to repeat. The present paper takes up the idea of a tendency to repeat something that reinforces psychic pain and asks which kind of agency is possible in the light of traumatic repetitions. First, the experiential roots of repetitive doings induced by trauma are investigated. Might a compulsion to repeat belong to the sphere of the kind of tendencies which Husserl terms “generally unconscious”? And if so, does this sphere bring us to the limit of phenomenology where we might need to cooperate with psychoanalysis to make sense of the manifestations of such an unconscious sphere? This is proposed in section two. In section three, Freud’s notion of the compulsion to repeat is discussed. At this point, the repetitive activity of the mind is investigated as the traumatized person’s ongoing struggle to survive with the trauma and as a struggle to understand what survival in this case even means. In section four, an attempt is made to describe the kind of agency involved in the repetitive activity of the mind. The paper concludes that weak agency is possible in traumatic repetition when understood as the person’s ongoing attempt to compose a future for what has been lost.

中文翻译：

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创伤经历中的倾向、重复和心灵活动

摘要

对创伤经历的研究促使弗洛伊德研究他所谓的强迫性重复。本文提出了重复某种强化精神痛苦的倾向的想法，并询问在创伤性重复的情况下哪种代理是可能的。首先，研究创伤引起的重复行为的经验根源。强迫性重复可能属于胡塞尔所说的“普遍无意识”的倾向范围吗？如果是这样，这个领域是否会将我们带到现象学的极限，我们可能需要与精神分析合作才能理解这种无意识领域的表现？这是在第二节中提出的。第三节讨论了弗洛伊德的强迫重复的概念。此时，心灵的重复活动被研究为受创伤者为在创伤中生存而进行的持续斗争，以及为理解这种情况下的生存意味着什么而进行的斗争。第四节试图描述参与心灵重复活动的机构类型。该论文的结论是，当人们不断尝试为已经失去的东西创造未来时，在创伤性重复中可能会出现弱能动性。