Interesting. I ran over the word limit, so I cut it in half.
One might agree, with a slight refinement. What recurs is less the same biology than a shared repertoire of human impulses such as fear, ambition, and longing, refracted through different cultural grammars. The resemblance is not repetition but structure, or signifié.
Thinkers as distinct as Giambattista Vico(The New Science), and Oswald Spengler(The Decline of the West, 1922), each perceived patterned returns, not identical events but recurring forms of meaning.
In a different register, Thomas Kuhn(The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) suggests that knowledge follows a kind of modus operandi, shifting through paradigms, so what appears in continuum is often reconfigured by the lens through which it is seen.
And if one follows Toni Morrison, memory and narrative do not merely preserve the past but actively reshape it, alluding that history is as much an act of telling as it is a record of what has been(politics of memory)
