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

=====Repetition=====In [[Freud]]'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]]''', they '''[[return]]''' in the ''present'' by expressing themselves in '''actions'''; when the '''[[subject]]''' does not '''[[remember]]''' the ''past'', therefore, he is condemned to '''[[repetition|repeat]]''' it by [[acting out|acting it out]]. Conversely, [[psychoanalytic treatment]] aims to break the cycle of [[repetition]] by helping the [[analysand|patient]] to [[remember]].

Although an element of <blockquote>"The [[repetitionpatient]] can be found in almost every does not ''remember'' anything of what he has forgotten and [[humanrepressed]] , but ''[[actionacts]]'' it out. He reproduces it not as a memory, but as an action; he ''repeats'' it, without, of course, the term "[[acting outknowing]]" that he is usually reserved for those [[actionrepeating]]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 activityit."<ref>Laplanche{{F}} "[[{{FB}}|Remembering, Repeating, Jean and Pontalis, JeanWorking-BetrandThrough]]. ''The Language of Psycho-Analysis''" 1914. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. London[[SE]] 12: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis. 1967. p.4150</ref> The [[subject]] fails to understand his motives for the [[action]].</blockquote>

From a [[Lacan]]ian perspectiveConversely, this basic definition of "[[acting outpsychoanalytic treatment]]" is true but incomplete; it ignores aims to break the dimension cycle of the [[Otherrepetition]]. Thus while [[Lacan]] maintains that [[acting out]] results from a failure to [[recollect]] the ''past'', he emphasizes by helping the [[intersubjective]] dimension of [[recollection]]. In other words, [[recollection]] does not merely involve recalling something to [[consciousness]], but also [[communicationanalysand|communicatingpatient]] this to an [[Other]] by means of [[speechremember]]. Hence [[acting out]] results when [[recollection]] is made impossible by the refusal of the [[Other]] to listen.

=====Recollection=====From a [[Lacan]]ian perspective, this basic definition of "[[acting out]]" is [[true]] but incomplete; it ignores the [[dimension]] of the [[Other]]. 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. =====Communication=====When the [[Other]] has become "deaf," the [[subject]] cannot convey a [[message]] to him in words, and is [[forced ]] to expressed the [[message]] in [[action]]s. The [[acting out]] is thus a ciphered [[message]] which the [[subject]] 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]]. It is the [[Other]] who is entrusted with deciphering the [[message]]; yet it is impossible for him to do so.