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Trauma victims are bound to relive and revisit traumatic events uncontrollably due to the belatedness and latency of trauma, that what is known as “repetition compulsion” serves to be “a compulsive mode of mimesis paradoxically and impossibly seeks to convene and fix once and for all images of the past” (Klein 141). Trauma survivors are incapable to lead a normal life after having gone through their traumatic past, and they could only revisit their trauma to try to overcome it. There are different types of cure which are aimed at combatting the compulsiveness of the repetition of past events as postulated predominantly by Sandler et al., Ferenczi and LaCapra. The first being “acted out [agiren]” which was first introduced by Freud back in 1905

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