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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]].
In his paper "Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through" (1914g), Freud revisited the distinction between remembering and acting out:
<blockquote>"The patient does not ''remember'' anything of what he has forgotten and repressed, but ''acts'' it out. He reproduces it not as a memory, but as an action; he ''repeats'' it, without, of course, knowing that he is repeating it."<ref>{{F}} "[[{{FB}}|Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through]]." 1914. [[SE]] 12: 150</ref></blockquote>
Conversely, [[psychoanalytic treatment]] aims to break the cycle of [[repetition]] by helping the [[analysand|patient]] to [[remember]].
