Are You An Emotional Murderer?

If we study the past we might not repeat it, we’re told, so history’s important—though we do repeat it, because the compulsion to repeat is not just an individual matter and mostly not voluntary. We return and return to familiar places, ideas, and beliefs, with enthusiasm, naiveté, and in paroxysms…The murderer returns to the scene of the crime, fascinated, horrified by the act, full of guilt and pleasure and fear.

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