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He cites Sabina Spielrein and her paper "Destruction as the Cause of Coming into Being" as a predecessor for his line of thinking. In this work, Freud claims that repetition compulsion has a highly instinctual characteristic and gives the appearance of a "daemonic force at work". From there, he argues that another instinct beside the pleasure principle must be responsible for the phenomena. He claims that all instincts are "an urge inherent in organic life to restore an earlier state of things", and since

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