Repetition Compulsion In The Great Gatsby

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"Repetition compulsion is an inherent, primordial tendency in the unconscious that impels the individual to repeat certain actions, in particular. The most painful or destructive ones. IN the novel the great Gatsby by Scott FitzGerald Jay Gatsby efforts to repeat the past. Even though Gatsby had to wait five year to by a mansion next to daisy. She never came over. Gatsby wants to go back in time to be with the love of his life. a dream deferred means a dream that ha been postponed. " He wanted nothing less of daisy than that she should go to tom and say "I never loved you". Gatsby loved daisy and would do anything to get her

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