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The term "[[acting out]]" is used in the ''[[Standard Edition]]'' to translate the [[German]] word ''[[Agieren]]'' used by [[Freud]].
In [[Freud]]'s [[{{LB}}|work]], "'''[[repetition|repeating]]'''" and "'''[[memory|remembering]]'''" are two "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]].
