"[[Acting out]]" is the term which is used in the ''[[Standard Edition]]'' to translate the [[German]] term ''[[Agieren]]'' used by [[Freud]].
"[[Acting outLacan]]" is the , following a tradition in psychoanalytic writing, uses this term which is used in English. ==Repeating and Remembering== One of the most important themes running throughout [[Freud]]''s [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]] is the opposition between [[repeating]] and [[Standard Editionremembering]]. These are, so to speak, "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 [[repressed]] from [[memory]], they return by expressing themselves in actions; when the [[subject]] does not [[remember]] the past, therefore, he is condemned to [[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]].
