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39result of the desire to reproduce a lost or past desire. What is repetition, then? Repetition is, if weare to adopt Lacan’s words, “tied to circular process of the exchange of speech. There is asymbolic circuit external to the subject, tied to a certain group of supports, of human agents, inwhich the subject, the small circle which called his destiny, is indeterminately included (The Egoin Freud’s Theory 98). The Symbolic exterior and interior exchanges determine what is calleddestiny. Destiny, however, could be also coincidences, accidents, chances, and alternatives. In hisanalysis of the question of hazard, Aristotle divided it into automaton (spontaneity) and tuché(causality). A set of events, he expounds, that happen accidentally constitute for us the veridicalhazard of the encounter (tuché) between the events. Lacan takes up Aristotle’s concepts andexpands them.What happens if there is an irregularity or rupture in speech or writing? What issometimes called error or slip of the tongue is what Aristotle calls tuché. Tuché is, however, theencounter with the Real. Such an encounter, as I will explain in this chapter, is a missedencounter that brings the tuché closer to the uncanny (i.e. the return of something that is onlyindirectly familiar). The tuché deconstructs the concept of determinism and introduces theconcept of the uncanny to subjectivity and causality. The tuché is the pure hazard that defiesprediction. Defying prediction, the tuché bonds to repetition. 10 “What is repeated,” Lacan tells us,“is always something that occurs” (54)something that is in the process of happening. Hecontinues to argue that, “the function of the tuché, of the real as encounteran encounter in sofar as it may be missed, in so far as it is essentially the missed encounterfirst presented itself inthe history of psycho-analysis in a form that was in itself already enough to arouse our attention,that of the trauma” (55; original italics). Trauma, as such, has a vital role in the compulsion to