Significant Moments: The Repetition Compulsion

The entire affair had been a lot of people performing a play . . .
Gilbert J. Rose, William Faulkner's Light in August: The Orchestration of Time In the Psychology of Artistic Style.
. . . an absurd . . .
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus.
. . . play and now at last they had all played out the parts which had been allotted them.
Gilbert J. Rose, William Faulkner's Light in August: The Orchestration of Time In the Psychology of Artistic Style.
What's past is . . .
William Shakespeare, The Tempest.
. . . eternally present, and therefore . . .
Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game.
. . . would seem to present material for an instructive prologue.
Lawrence J. Friedman, Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson.
It was uncanny to observe how the persons drawn into the imbroglio were forced to pursue the acting out, almost as if they were . . .
K.R. Eissler, Talent and Genius.
. . . grotesques, moving puppetlike . . .
Robert W. Gutman, Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind, and His Music.
. . . under the dominance of . . .
K.R. Eissler, Talent and Genius.
. . . an unseen Player who . . .
Gilbert J. Rose, William Faulkner's Light in August: The Orchestration of Time In the Psychology of Artistic Style.
. . . acted through them—
Steven R. Latham, System and Responsibility: Three Readings of the Institute of Medicine Report on Medical Error.
But in the end . . .
Henry James, The American.
. . . dear friends, . . .
William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
. . . you know well that life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author.
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Don't you just hate it when you get caught up in somebody else's repetition compulsion? When you are recruited to act a role in somebody else's play?

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