Our repetition compulsion is the inner drive we have to re-enact our traumas in an unconscious urge

Our repetition compulsion is the inner drive we have to re-enact our traumas in an unconscious urge to somehow solve them is part of our addictions/dysfunctions. Perhaps the root cause of our addiction. The repetition compulsion is an urge that so often dooms us into failing relationships with people who are also acting out their own unfulfilled traumas, because it, like all decisions to do with our past, just sends up careening back into more pain, suffering, and trauma of which we require a chemical relief.