The limbic system perceives resolving an emotional issue in the present as also resolving it in the past.

“And the lyic system does not care about the clock or the calendar. So how I would relate that to the repetition compulsion is is when people are repeating what they're trying to do is to make things right, right? With the idea that if we can repeat the situation and make it right, it will fix everything. Right? which makes perfect sense if if we think well where is that concept coming from right it's coming from the emotional part of the brain that wants relief from suffering of the trauma and does not understand the clock or the calendar so if I can solve something now I will also solve something in the past.”

“So So we can say, well, well, the the past is in the past, right? So your limbic system doesn't care. Right? And our limbic system is the emotion systems in us.”

“So if there's logical mechanisms and limbic or emotion mechanisms, it's a simplification, but you know, we can look at the brain that way and say, well, the logic mechanisms are telling me that and are declaring that it's true because the clock says that it's in the past. But the limbic, the emotion systems have a very different reality. It doesn't They don't see it that way. They don't know that there's a clock or the calendar.”