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
linked mentions for "longing for the freedom of our chains":
life is a series of attachment and losses the nature of our psyche is based on change, growth, curiosity, and imagination. But there are very conservative elements within us that retain a
Freud’s self-interpretation of psychoanalysis Columbus believed that he had found a new way to India, when what he had discovered was a new continent. There is also a difference between what