he is compelled to keep on working over Do the last lines of the following description of Andy Warhol's art imply "But, the irony is that while Warhol tries to reduce the differences between his artworks and their source images in order to repel the trauma of death (a trauma that is usually caused by differences), because of his obsession in doing this, he paradoxically sticks to this trauma more and more; like the fetish object that although wants to protect us against anxiety, it itself generates anxiety"?​ Text:​ The artist whose life and work are not only synonymous with the conservative strand of the death drive and Freud’s notion of the desire to return to homeostasis, but which also expose the dynamic of repetition compulsion is Andy Warhol. Warhol’s art practice epitomises the desire to control the death drive by imitating the mechanical operations of a machine, whose input and output are equivalent and which lacks tension. The content of his imagery is often derived from images of death in the media – the electric chair, skulls, car crashes and movie stars like Marilyn Monroe, whose proximity to death made them seductive. He subjects these images to a blanket serial repetition, albeit including subtle differences caused by the glitches of the screen-printing process. However, these indexical traces of difference are minimal. The irony is, though, that in his attempt to reduce difference to zero, he is compelled to keep on working over the trauma of death, much in the way that the fetish object in protecting against anxiety also generates it and continually needs to be redone.