more from the Repetition Project

It is repetition itself whose face [Freud], as much as Kierkegaard, renews for us in the division of the subject, the fate of scientific man. Let another confusion be dispelled; it bears no relation to Nietzsche’s ‘eternal return’ (307).

Lacanian Repetition

Freud is not dealing with any repetition residing in the natural, no return of need…Repetition demands the new. It is turned towards the ludic, which finds its dimension in this new…Whatever, in repetition, is varied, modulated, is merely alienation of its meaning. The adult, and even the more advanced child, demands something new in his activities, in his games. But this ‘sliding away’ (glissement) conceals that what is the true secret of the ludic, namely, the most radical diversity constituted by repetition itself (61).