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=Jacques Lacan=
==Behavior==
An "[[Lacanact]] draws a distinction between " is not mere "[[act|behavior]]" -- which such as that of all '''[[nature|animals engage in ]]''' -- and an but a uniquely [[act|''human'' act]], "since to our [[actsknowledge]]" -- which are there is no [[symbolicother]] and can only be ascribed to [[humanact]] but the [[subjectshuman]]one."<ref>{{S11}} p.50</ref>
==ResponsibilityEthics of Psychoanalysis==A fundamental quality of an The "[[act]] " is that an '''[[ethics|ethical concept]]''' insofar as the actor '''[[subject]]''' can be held '''[[responsibility|responsible]] ''' for it; the . 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'''. 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]]'''. [[Freud]] called these [[act]]s "'''[[parapraxes]]'''," or "'''[[bungled actions]]'''." They are "[[bungled]]" only from the point of view of the [[conscious]] [[intention]], since they are successful in expressing an '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''.<ref>[[{{FB}}|Freud, Sigmund]]. ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Psychopathology of Everyday Life]]''. [[SE]] VI. 1901.</ref> ==Analysand==In '''[[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]]''' the [[subject]] is thus faced with the '''[[ethical]] [[duty]]''' of assuming '''[[responsibility]]''' even for the '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]s''' expressed in his '''[[action]]s'''. He must recognize even apparently accidental '''[[action]]s''' as [[true]] [[act]]s which express an [[ethicalintention]], albeit [[unconscious]], and assume this [[intention]] as his own. 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 [[conceptaction]]s.
==Analyst==The '''[[psychoanalyticethics]] concept of [[responsibility]] is complicated in [[psychoanalysis]] by ''' enjoin the discovery that, in addition to his [[consciousanalyst]] plans, the to assume [[subjectresponsibility]] also has for his or her [[unconsciousact]] s (i.e. interventions in the [[intentiontreatment]]s).
An [[Freudintervention]] can only be called these a true "[[act|psychoanalytic act]]s "when it succeeds in expressing the '''[[parapraxesdesire of the analyst]]''' -- that is," or "when it helps the '''[[analysand]]''' to move towards the '''[[bungled actionsend of analysis]]'''."
= In the work of Slavoj Žižek =The Act (also referred to as an ethical Act or authentic Act) is a foundational concept in Žižek’s [[philosophy]] and serves as the key to [[analystunderstanding]] must be guided (the [[political]] and ethical dimensions of his thought. Th e term first appears in these interventions) ''[[The Sublime Object of Ideology]]'', where Žižek distinguishes pragmatic-political [[acts]] from the more [[formal]] “act before act”, by an appropriate which the subject “[[structures]] his [[perception]] of the [[world]] in advance in a way that opens the [[desirespace]]for his intervention”, and which allows him [[retroactively]] to posit the very presuppositions of his [[activity]] (''SO'': 247). It is this [[Hegelian]] concept of “positing the presuppositions” that Žižek revisits throughout his oeuvre, combining it with [[Lacanian]] psychoanalysis and the philosophy of [[Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling]] to conceive of the Act within a formal [[structure]] of [[paradox]]. “An act accomplishes what, within the given symbolic [[Lacanuniverse]] calls , appears to be ‘impossible’, yet it changes its [[conditions]] so that it creates retroactively the conditions of its own possibility” (''CHU'': 121). An Act short-circuits the realms of [[contingency]] and [[necessity]], immanence and transcendence, [[desire politics]] and ethics and [[cause]] and effect, for it is made without strategic calculations or consideration of outcomes; it opens a [[moment]] when absolute [[freedom]] coincides with an unconditional necessity, a moment when the analystsubject is suspended between its [[being]] and [[meaning]].
Because an Act is grounded only in itself, it appears as mad or even monstrous according to the norms of the socio-[[Lacansymbolic order]] dedicates a year of his ; but once enacted it serves to reconfigure what is taken as mad, ethical and even [[seminarreal]] to discussing further . Thus: <blockquote>act is therefore not “abyssal” in the nature [[sense]] of the an [[irrational]] gesture that eludes all [[rational]] criteria; it can and should be judged by [[act|psychoanalytic actuniversal]]rational criteria, the point is only that it changes (re-creates) the very criteria by which it should be judged … it does more than intervene in reality in the sense of “having actual consequences” – it redefines what counts as reality.(T?: 171–2)<ref/blockquote>But an Act does even more than [[Lacan|Lacanchange]] what counts as reality, Jacquesbecause it further exposes how reality itself is not totally ontologically [[complete]]. ''Th at is, at its most fundamental, an Act reveals a deadlock or [[inconsistency]] at the core of the socio-symbolic order; it exposes how reality is [[Seminar XI|Le Séminairesplit]] from within. Livre XVOr, in Žižek’s [[words]], “an act disturbs the symbolic field into which it intervenes not out of nowhere, but precisely from the standpoint of this inherent [[impossibility]], stumbling block, which is its hidden, disavowed [[structuring]] principle” (''CHU'': 125). L'acte psychanalytiqueŽižek offers te example of Tito, 1967who in [[1948]] declared [[Yugoslavia]] a non-68aligned [[state]] and thus accomplished “the impossible”, for his Act revealed a crack in the Stalinist world [[communist]]movement by [[another]] communist (''E!'': 46). UnpublishedSimilarly, Lenin’s [[contingent]] Act of [[revolution]] in [[Russia]] in 1917 opened the space (retroactively) to mobilize the [[working]] [[class]] to form a new majority under [[communism]] and exposed the exploitation of the previous Tsarist rule (''LC'': 311).</ref>
==See Also==
{{See}}||* [[ConciousnessAnalyst]]* [[Consciousness]]
* [[Death drive]]
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* [[Desire]]
* [[Desire of the analyst]]
* [[End of analysis]]
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* [[Ethics]]
* [[Inherent transgression]]
* [[Law]]
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* [[Schelling]]
* [[Subject]]
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