<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> <P> All such activities appeared to Freud to contradict the organism's search for pleasure, and therefore' to justify the hypothesis of a compulsion to repeat--something that seems more primitive, more elementary, more instinctual than the pleasure principle which it over-rides':' a daemonic current / trait',' a daemonic character', a' daemonic compulsion', likely alluding to the Latin motto errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum ("to err is human, to persist (in committing errors longer available) is of the devil"). Following this line of thought, he would come to stress that' an instinct is an urge inherent in organic life to restore an earlier state of things'; and so to arrive eventually at his concept of the death drive . </P> <P> Along the way, however, Freud had in addition considered a variety of more purely psychological explanations for the phenomena of the repetition compulsion which he had observed . Traumatic repetitions could be seen as the result of an attempt to retrospectively "master" the original trauma, a child's play as an attempt to turn passivity into activity:' At the outset he was in a passive situation...but by repeating it, unpleasurable though it was, as a game, he took on an active part' . </P>

What is the term for a recurring cross-cultural element like this