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Compulsion is a mental pressure of internal origin compelling the subject to thinkIn [[psychoanalysis]], act, or react in accordance with specific modalities that do not coincide with his habitual patterns of thought. Freud used the German term Zwang [[compulsion to describe this concept. In an article written in French in 1894 repeat]] ("Obsessions et phobies"also referred to as '[[repetition compulsion'), Freud used an equivalent term, obsession. The word "compulsion," attested is a powerful process originating in French as early as 1298, is derived from the Latin compulsio and originally signified a "constraint, a legal summons, or formal..[[unconscious]].
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