longing for the freedom of our chains

• the frequent choice to remain within the predictable, the safe, the familiar, even the miserable, thinking it preferable to the uncertainty of the unknown
• Freud identified what he called “the repetition compulsion” … (speculating) that one might repeat the traumatizing experience as somehow “safer” than the original, believing .. that it will be better this time
• letting go of the old is apparently much more difficult than we think

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1. Freud’s self-interpretation of psychoanalysis
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