Postmodern Formulations
By the close of the twentieth century, the psychoanalytic view of repetition compulsion had come into increasing dialogue with a variety of other discourses, ranging from attachment theory through brief psychodynamic therapy to cognitive behavioural therapy.
Attachment theory saw early developmental experiences leading to 'schemas or mental representations of relationship... become organised, encoded experiential and cognitive data...that lead to self-confirmation'.
The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme - 'core wishes that the individual has in relation to others' - was seen in brief psychodynamic therapy as linked to the way in 'a repetition compulsion, the client will behave in ways that engender particular responses from others that conform with previous experiences in interpersonal relationships'.
In '"psychological schemas" described in social psychology or cognitive-behavioural psychology..."an enduring symbolic framework that organizes constellations of thought, feeling, memory, and expectation about self and others" (Knapp 1991: 94)', further parallels may be seen to the role of early unconscious fixations in fueling the repetition compulsion.
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