"Repetition in the text is a return, a calling back or a turning back. And as I suggested earlier, repetitions are thus both returns to and returns of: for instance, returns to origins and returns of the repressed, moving us forward in Pip's journey toward elucidation, disillusion, and maturity by taking us back, as if in obsessive reminder that we cannot really move ahead until we have understood that still enigmatic past, yet ever pushing us forward, since revelation, tied to the past, belongs to the future."

"There is in this manner a blurring of plot lines, useful to the processes of wish fulfillment in that education and indeed repression itself can be interpreted as agencies necessary to the pursuit of the dream. Realisation of the dream permits acceptance of society's interpretations, and in fact requires the abandonment of any effort at personal interpretations..."

-Repetition,Repression and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations,Peter Brooks

Hmmm. Something to think about from my notes.