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=====Behavior=====
An "[[act]]" is not mere "[[act|behavior]]" (such as that of all '''[[nature|animals]]''') but a uniquely [[act|''human'' act]], "since to our [[knowledge]] there is no other [[act]] but the [[human]] one."<ref>{{S11}} p. 50</ref>
=====Responsibility=====
A fundamental quality of an [[act]] is that the actor can be held [[responsible]] for it; the concept of the [[act]] is thus an [[ethical]] [[concept]].
The [[psychoanalytic]] concept of [[responsibility]] is complicated in [[psychoanalysis]] by the discovery that, in addition to his [[conscious]] plans, the [[subject]] also has [[unconscious]] [[intention]]s.
=====Parapraxes=====
Hence someone may well commit an [[act]] which he claims was un[[intention]]al, but which [[analysis]] reveals to be the expression of an [[unconscious]] [[desire]].
In [[law]], a [[subject]] cannot be found [[guilty]] of murder (for example) unless it can be proved that the [[act]] was [[intention]]al.
=====Responsibility=====
In [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] the [[subject]] is faced with the [[ethical]] [[duty]] of assuming [[responsibility]] even for the [[unconscious]] [[desire]]s expressed in his [[action]]s.
Neither [[acting out]] or a [[passage to the act]] are true [[act]]s, since the [[subject]] does not assume [[responsibility]] for his [[desire]] in these [[action]]s.
=====Ethics of Psychoanalysis=====
The [[ethics]] of [[psychoanalysis]] enjoin the [[analyst]] to assume [[responsibility]] for his or her [[act]]s (i.e. interventions in the [[treatment]]).
[[Lacan]] dedicates a year of his [[seminar]] to discussing further the nature of the [[act|psychoanalytic act]].<ref>[[Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. ''[[Seminar XI|Le Séminaire. Livre XV. L'acte psychanalytique, 1967-68]]''. Unpublished.</ref>
=====Conclusion=====
A [[bungled action]] is, as has been stated, successful from the point of view of the [[unconscious]].
The [[death drive]] is thus closely connected with the [[ethics|ethical domain]] in [[Lacan]]'s thought.
=====See Also=====
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* [[Analyst]]
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===== References =====
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{{FFC}} p. 50
<blockquote>[[Repetition]] first appears in a form that is not clear, that is not self-evident, like a reproduction, or a making present, ''in act''. That is why I have placed ''The Act'' with a large question-mark at the bottom of the blackboard so as to indicate that, as long as we speak of the relations of [[repetiitonrepetition]] with the [[real]], this [[act]] will remain on our horizon.</blockquote>
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