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 The term '[[passage to the act ]]' (passage ‡ [[French]]: ''passageà l'[[acte]]'', [[German]]: ''[[Agieren]]'') (borrowed by [[psychoanalysis]] from [[clinical psychiatry]] and [[criminology]]) refers to a [[particular]] kind of [[action]] defined by its [[aggressivity|aggressive]] and [[violence|violent]] [[character]].     While both are last resorts against anxiety, the subject who [[acts]] something out still remains in the SCENE, whereas a passage to the act involves an exit from the [[scene]] altogether. Acting out is a [[Symbolic]] [[message]] addressed to the [[big Other]], whereas a passage to the act is a flight from the Other into the [[dimension]] of the [[Real]]. The passage to the act is thus an exit from the [[Symbolic]] network, a [[dissolution]] of the [[social]] bond. Although the passage to the act does not, according to Lacan, necessarily imply an underlying [[Psychosis]], it does entail a dissolution of the subject; for a [[moment]], the subject becomes a pure [[object]]. The phrase 'passage to the act' comes from French [[clinical ]] [[psychiatry]], which uses it to designate those impulsive acts, of a violent or criminal [[nature]], which sometimes mark the onset of an acute [[psychotic ]] episode. As the phrase itself indicates, Because these acts are supposed attributed to mark the action of the [[Psychosis]].  The impulsive act marks the point when the [[subject ]] proceeds from a violent [[idea ]] or [[intention ]] to the corresponding act (see Laplanche and Pontalis, 1967: 5). Because these acts are attributed In "passage to the action act" it is the idea of "passage" that is important, for it refers to the [[Psychosisrelationship]], French law absolves between the act and the perpetrator of civil responsibility supposed [[mental]] [[process]] that prepares for them (Chemama, 1993: 4)and facilitates it. As psychoanalytic ideas gained wider circulation in France in The [[passage to the act]] raises the first half issue of the twentieth centuryconnection between [[thought]] and action.  Whether the characterizing such an [[act]] is directed at the [[self]] or at [[other]]s, it became common for French analysts to use is generally considered [[psychopathology|psychopathological]].It was not in a [[philosophical]] context that the term [[notion]] of passage ‡ l'acte to translate the term Agieren used by Freud: iact was developed, however, but rather in connection with the often unpredictable character of certain antisocial and violent acts.e. as What the [[word]] "passage" denoted was the sudden lurch from a fantasied act to a real act, a synonym for shift that would normally be inhibited by [[Acting Outdefense]]mechanisms. However, in his seminar of        In the 1962-363 [[seminar]], ''[[L'angoisse|Anxiety]]'' (''L'[[angoisse]]''), [[Jacques Lacan establishes ]] states that [[anxiety]] can be resolved through a [[passage to the act]].<ref>1962-63</ref> He asserts a [[distinction ]] between these termsthe [[passage to the act]] and [[acting out]]. While both are last resorts against anxiety, The term [[acting out]] is limited to the framework of the [[treatment]] and the subject who acts something out still remains in dynamics of the SCENE, whereas a [[transference]].    The [[passage to the act involves ]] is the effect of a pre-[[oedipal]] mode of [[psychic]] functioning dominated by primary [[processes]], by an exit from inability to tolerate [[frustration]], respect [[reality]]-testing, or curb a tendency to impulsiveness. In this view a weak ego may be [[responsible]] for a propensity to [[pass]] to the scene altogetheract. Acting out The "act" here is more like a motor [[Symbolicdischarge]] message addressed than an action intended to transform reality, which requires the subject to delay the discharge by means of a thought-process permitting the psychic [[big Otherapparatus]]to endure tension so long as release is thus deferred (Freud, whereas a passage 1911b).   Passage to the act is concerns the relationship between the act and its mentalization; it could indeed be regarded as a flight near-[[total]] [[exclusion]] of any mental process from the Other into act. Any [[understanding]] of such an act, which is not assumed but rather presented by the dimension [[agent]] as passively experienced, must depend on an effort of decipherment (Chasseguet-Smirgel, 1987; Balier, 1988). For this [[reason]] passage to the act has been likened to somatization, since both are characterized by a [[Reallack]] of psychic [[working]]-out, even by alexithymia. The  Alternatively, it might be argued that passage to the act is thus does not rely on an exit [[absence]] of mentalization, but rather on a kind of "telescoping" (Aulagnier, 1975/2001) of [[fantasy]] and reality. In this perspective, far from [[being]] the consequence of a failure of mentalization, the passage to the act results from an overflowing of the fantasy [[Symbolicworld]] network, into reality because an element of reality has impinged on the fantasy scenario and opened a dissolution of breach enabling the social bondact to externalize it. Although It is hard, therefore, to reduce the notion of passage to the act does notto a simple [[causality]]. Instead, instances of passage to the act should be defined in [[terms]] of the particular [[individual]] involved, according and their specific [[psychodynamic]] features examined [[case]] by case. Thus [[schizophrenic]] and [[paranoid]] homicidal passages to Lacanthe act [[present]] considerable differences, necessarily imply even if both embody an underlying inadequate attempt to dissipate unbearable anxiety. A paranoid passage to the act is liable to occur when the persecuting object is lost [[sight]] of and the persecutory [[Psychosissystem]]is destabilized (Zagury, it does entail 1990). The passage to the act in borderline [[conditions]] depends rather on a dissolution lack of identifications (Bergeret, 2002), while such acts in adolescents may be fostered by the emergence of destabilizing [[instinctual]] impulses conducive to either [[excess]] or asceticism. If one resists the temptation to simplify the notion, it appears that passage to the subject; for act may have a momentlarge variety of etiologies. Meanwhile, the subject becomes notion clearly belongs to a pure objectvery broad philosophical [[discussion]] of the relationship between thought and action.  In [[order ]] to illustrate what he means, [[Lacan ]] refers to the case of the young [[homosexual ]] [[Womanwoman]] treated by [[Freud (]].<ref>Freud, 1920a). </ref> Freud reports that the young [[Woman]] was [[walking ]] in the street with the [[Woman]] she loved when she was spotted by her [[father]], who cast an angry glance at her. Immediately afterwards, she rushed off and threw herself over a wall down the side of a cutting onto a railway line. Lacan argues that this [[suicide ]] attempt was a passage to the act; it was not a message addressed to anyone, since [[symbolisation ]] had become [[impossible ]] for the young [[Woman]]. Confronted with her father's [[desire]], she was consumed with an uncontrollable anxiety and reacted in an impulsive way by [[identifying ]] with the object. Thus she fell down (Ger. niederkommt) like the [[objet ]] [[petit a]], the leftover of [[signification ]] (Lacan, 1962-3: seminar of 16 January 1963).