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=====Translation=====The term "[[Acting acting out]]" is the term which is used in the ''[[Standard Edition]]'' to translate the [[German]] term [[word]] ''[[Agieren]]'' used by [[Freud]].

=====Repetition=====In [[LacanFreud]]'s [[{{LB}}|work]], "[[repetition|repeating]]" and "[[memory|remembering]]" are "contrasting ways of bringing the ''[[past]]'' into the ''[[present]]''."<ref>Laplanche, Jean and Pontalis, Jean-Betrand. ''The [[Language]] of [[Psycho]]-[[Analysis]]''. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. [[London]]: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis. 1967. p.4</ref>If ''past'' events are [[repression|repressed]] from [[memory]], following a tradition they [[return]] in the ''present'' by expressing themselves in psychoanalytic writing''actions''; when the [[subject]] does not [[remember]] the ''past'', therefore, uses this term in he is condemned to [[repetition|repeat]] it by [[Englishacting out|acting it out]].

 ==Repeating and Remembering== One of the most important themes running throughout <blockquote>"The [[Freudpatient]]does not ''s [[Works remember'' anything of Sigmund Freud|work]] is the opposition between what he has forgotten and [[repeatingrepressed]] and , but ''[[rememberingacts]]'' it out. These areHe reproduces it not as a memory, so to speak, "contrasting ways of bringing the past into the present."<ref>Laplanche, Jean and Pontalis, Jean-Betrand. but as an action; he ''The Language of Psycho-Analysisrepeats''. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. London: Hogarth Press and the Institute it, without, of Psycho-Analysis. 1967. p.4</ref> If past events are course, [[repressedknowing]] from that he is [[memoryrepeating]], they return by expressing themselves in actions; when the it."<ref>{{F}} "[[subject]] does not [[remember]] the past{{FB}}|Remembering, thereforeRepeating, he is condemned to [[repeatand Working-Through]] it by ." 1914. [[acting out|acting it outSE]].12: 150</ref></blockquote>

==Motivation== Although an element of [[repetition]] can be found in almost every [[human]] [[action]], the term "[[acting out]]" is usually reserved for those [[action]]s which display "an impulsive aspect relatively out of harmony with the subject's usual motivational patterns" and which are therefore "fairly easy to isolate from the overall trends of his activity."<ref>Laplanche, Jean and Pontalis, Jean-Betrand. ''The Language of Psycho-Analysis''. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis. 1967. p.4</ref> The [[subject]] fails to understand his motives for the [[action]]. =Recollection===Jacques Lacan== From a [[Lacan]]ian perspective, this basic definition of "[[acting out]]" is [[true ]] but incomplete; it ignores the [[dimension ]] of the [[Other]]. THus Thus while [[Lacan]] maintains that [[acting out]] results from a failure to [[recollect]] the ''past'', he emphasizes the [[intersubjective]] dimension of [[recollection]]. In other [[words]], [[recollection]] does not merely involve recalling something to [[consciousness]], but also [[communication|communicating]] this to an [[Other]] by means of [[speech]]. Hence [[acting out]] results when [[recollection]] is made [[impossible]] by the [[refusal]] of the [[Other]] to listen.

In other =====Communication=====When the [[Other]] has become "deaf," the [[subject]] cannot convey a [[message]] to him in words, and is [[recollectionforced]] does not merely involve recalling something to expressed the [[consciousnessmessage]], but also in [[action]]s. The [[acting out]] is thus a ciphered [[message]] which the [[communicatingsubject]] this addresses to an [[Other]] by means , although the [[subject]] himself is neither [[conscious]] of the [[content]] of this [[speechmessage]]nor even aware that his [[action]]s express a [[message]]. It is the [[Other]] who is entrusted with deciphering the [[message]]; yet it is impossible for him to do so.

Hence =====See Also====={{See}}* [[acting outAct]] results when * [[recollectionAnalysand]] is made impossible by the refusal of the * [[Communication]]||* [[Consciousness]]* [[Intersubjectivity]]* [[Memory]]||* [[Other]] to listen.* [[Recollection]]* [[Repetition]]||* [[Repression]]* [[Subject]]* [[Treatment]]{{Also}}

When the [[Other]] has become =====References=====<div style="deaf,font-size:11px" the [[subject]] cannot convey a message to him in words, and is forced to expressed the message in [[action]]s.class="references-small"><references/></div>

The {{OK}}[[acting outCategory:Practice]] is thus a ciphered message which the [[subjectCategory:Treatment]] addresses to an [[Other]], although the [[subject]] himself is neither [[conscious]] of the content of this message nor even aware that his [[action]]s express a message.