Translator’s Acknowledgments Preface to the English Language Edition: A Conversation with Dr. Nasio Part I. A Clinical Experience in which the Psychoanalyst Listens to His or Her Patient While Being Mindful of the Concept of Repetition Twofold Empathy: The Exclusive Skill of the Psychoanalyst A General Definition of Repetition The Beneficial Effects of Healthy Repetition: Self-Preservation, Self-Fulfillment, and Identity Formation Three Modes of the Return of Our Past: In Our Consciousness, in Our Healthy Acts, and in Our Pathological Actions Pathological Repetition is the Compulsive Return of a Traumatic Past that Erupts in the Present as a Symptom or as an Impulsive Action Two Modalities of Pathological Repetition: Temporal Repetition and Topological Repetition Figures 1 and 2: Two Categories of Pathological Repetition: Temporal and Topological The Drive is the Compulsive Force of Jouissance The Lacanian Theory of Repetition: The Unconscious is Structured as a Repetition Automatism Diagram 1: Repetition According to Lacan An Example of Pathological Repetition: Bernard, or the Uncontrollable and Repetitive Need to be Humiliated Psychoanalytic Treatment of Pathological Repetition through its Revivification Diagram 2: A Concluding Diagram Healthy Repetition Pathological Repetition Therapeutic Revivification Part II. Excerpts from Freud and Lacan on Repetition, Preceded by our Commentaries Figure 1: Schema of Deferred Action Figure 2: Engendering the Subject of the Unconscious at the Point of Closure, C, of the Repetitive Loop Index

"A clear, accessible, and highly readable contribution to psychoanalytic literature in the Freudian and Lacanian traditions. Nasio's writing, and its translation by Pettigrew, is extremely lucid, especially by the standards of much Lacanian literature. This is a very worthwhile book in its own right." — Adrian Johnston, author of Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's 'The Freudian Thing'