It's a type of severe anxiety that's triggered by a traumatic event.

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This is the achievement of mastery, as Freud puts it and as Brooks follows him, that we can acquire through the repetition of a traumatic event.

这就是一种征服，就像弗洛伊德说的那样，而且布鲁克斯把这一思想延续下去，我们通过重复受到创伤的事件就可以理解了。

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How does this compulsion to return to the traumatic event in any way correspond to or submit itself to explanation in terms of the pleasure principle?"

这些强制性回到创伤回忆中的行为,有是怎样以,快乐原则的形式体现出来的呢？

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