<P> The first was the way' dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident' rather than, for example,' show (ing) the patient pictures from his healthy past' . </P> <P> The second came from children's play . Freud reported observing a child throw his favorite toy from his crib, become upset at the loss, then reel the toy back in, only to repeat this action . Freud theorized that the child was attempting to master the sensation of loss' in allowing his mother to go away without protesting', but asked in puzzlement' How then does his repetition of this distressing experience as a game fit in with the pleasure principle?' . </P> <P> The third was the way (noted in 1914) that the patient, exploring in therapy a repressed past,' is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of...remembering it as something belonging to the past...the compulsion to repeat the events of his childhood in the transference evidently disregards the pleasure principle in every way' . </P> <P> The fourth was the so - called "destiny neurosis", manifested in' the life - histories of men and women...(as) an essential character - trait which remains always the same and which is compelled to find expression in a repetition of the same experience' . </P>

What do you call a person who makes the same mistake over and over again