Sigmund Freud’s concept of ‘repetition compulsion’ notes that once we have been emotionally traumatized (and conditioned), we may unconsciously seek to repeat a similar trauma in the future. Essentially, what has traumatized an individual earlier in life, if unresolved, will often revisit them again in similar future circumstances. Visit https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181920/ for a related paper on the ‘Neuroplasticity in Addictive Disorders’.
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