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=====Translation=====The term "[[acting out]]" is used in the ''[[Standard Edition]]'' to translate the [[German]] [[word ]] ''[[Agieren]]'' used by [[Freud]].

=====Repetition=====In [[Freud]]'s [[{{LB}}|work]], "[[repetition|repeating]]" and "[[memory|remembering]]" are "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]].

If ''past'' events are '''<blockquote>"The [[repression|repressedpatient]]does not ''' from 'remember''anything of what he has forgotten and [[memoryrepressed]]''', they 'but ''[[returnacts]]''' in the ''present'' by expressing themselves in '''actions'''it out. He reproduces it not as a memory, but as an action; when the he '''[[subject]]''' does not 'repeats''it, without, of course, [[rememberknowing]]''' the ''past'', therefore, that he is condemned to '''[[repetition|repeatrepeating]]''' it by ."<ref>{{F}} "[[acting out{{FB}}|acting it outRemembering, 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]]'''.

==Motivation===Recollection=====Although an element From a [[Lacan]]ian perspective, this basic definition of "[[repetitionacting out]] can be found in almost every " is [[humantrue]] but incomplete; it ignores the [[actiondimension]], of the term "[[Other]]. Thus while [[Lacan]] maintains that [[acting out]]" is usually reserved for those results from a failure to [[actionrecollect]]s which display "an impulsive aspect relatively out of harmony with the subject's usual motivational patterns" and which are therefore "fairly easy to isolate from 'past'', he emphasizes the overall trends [[intersubjective]] dimension of his activity[[recollection]]."<ref>LaplancheIn other [[words]], Jean and Pontalis[[recollection]] does not merely involve recalling something to [[consciousness]], Jean-Betrand. ''The Language but also [[communication|communicating]] this to an [[Other]] by means of Psycho-Analysis''[[speech]]. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. London: Hogarth Press and Hence [[acting out]] results when [[recollection]] is made [[impossible]] by the Institute [[refusal]] of Psycho-Analysis. 1967. pthe [[Other]] to listen.4</ref>

=====Communication=====When the [[Other]] has become "deaf," the [[subject]] cannot convey a [[message]] to him in words, and is [[forced]] to expressed the [[message]] in [[action]]s. The [[acting out]] is thus a ciphered [[message]] which the [[subject]] fails addresses to understand an [[Other]], although the [[subject]] himself is neither [[conscious]] of the [[content]] of this [[message]] nor even aware that his motives for [[action]]s express a [[message]]. It is the [[Other]] who is entrusted with deciphering the [[actionmessage]]; yet it is impossible for him to do so.

==Jacques Lacan==[[Lacan]], following a tradition in psychoanalytic writing, uses this term in [[English]]. From a [[Lacan]]ian perspective, this basic definition of "[[acting out]]" is true but incomplete; it ignores the dimension of the [[Other]]. ==Recollection==Thus while [[Lacan]] maintains that [[acting out]] results from a failure to [[recollect]] the past, he emphasizes the [[intersubjective]] dimension of [[recollection]]. In other words, [[recollection]] does not merely involve recalling something to [[consciousness]], but also [[communicating]] this to an [[Other]] by means of [[speech]]. Hence [[acting out]] results when [[recollection]] is made impossible by the refusal of the [[Other]] to listen. =See Also=Communication==When the [[Other]] has become "deaf," the [[subject]] cannot convey a [[message]] to him in words, and is forced to expressed the [[message]] in [[action]]s. The [[acting out]] is thus a ciphered [[message]] which the [[subject]] addresses to an [[Other]], although the [[subject]] himself is neither [[conscious]] of the content of this [[message]] nor even aware that his [[action]]s express a [[message]]. It is the [[Other]] who is entrusted with deciphering the [[message]]; yet it is impossible for him to do so. ==See Also==

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