Assertion: repetition compulsion | /r/HasProperty | rooted in the failure
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text: "Trauma, Addiction, and Temporal Bulimia in Madame Bovary" (131-49) struggles to claim contemporary relevance for Emma with a twofold, self-contradictory implication: (1) Emma's condition, a repetition compulsion rooted in the failure to remember, uniquely foreshadows "our" condition (bearing "the prophetic traces of a depiction of the temporary structure of the many forms of trauma and addiction that have come to define contemporary American culture," 132 --"prophetic" suggesting a temporal leap); and (2) Emma's condition illustrates the human condition in general (Madame Bovary being "one of the most eloquent analyses of the temporal pathology of everyday life available to us," 134).