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==Origin of the Term==The phrase "[[passage to the act]]" comes from [[French]] [[clinic]]al [[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, these [[act]]s are supposed to mark the point when the [[subject]] proceeds from a violent [[idea ]] or [[intention]] to the corresponding [[act]]. Because these acts are attributed to the [[action]] of the [[psychosis]], French law absolves the perpetrator of civil [[responsibility]] for [[them]].<ref>Chemama, Roland (ed.) (1993) ''Dictionnaire de la [[Psychanalyse]]. Dictionnaire actuel des signifiants, [[concepts]] et mathèmes de la psychanalyse'', [[Paris]]: Larousse. p.41</ref>

Because these acts are attributed ==Jacques Lacan=====Passage to the action Act and Acting Out===As [[psychoanalytic theory|psychoanalytic ideas]] gained wider [[circulation]] in [[France]] in the first half of the twentieth century, it became common for [[French]] [[analyst]]s to use the term ''[[psychosispassage à l'acte]], French law absolves '' to translate the term ''[[Passage to the perpetrator of civil responsibility act|Agieren]]'' used by [[Freud]]: i.e. as a synonym for them[[acting out]].<ref>Chemama However, in his [[seminar]] of 1962-3, Roland (ed[[Lacan]] establishes a [[distinction]] between these [[terms]].) (1993) ''Dictionnaire de la Psychanalyse. Dictionnaire actuel des signifiants While both are last resorts against [[anxiety]], concepts et mathèmes de la psychanalyse''the [[subject]] who [[acting out|acts something out]] still remains in the [[scene]], Paris: Larousse. pwhereas a [[passage to the act]] involves an exit from the [[scene]] altogether.41</ref>

===Acting Out and the Passage to Exit from the ActSymbolic Order===As [[psychoanalytic theory|psychoanalytic ideasActing out]] is a [[symbolic]] [[message]] gained wider circulation in France in addressed to the first half of the twentieth century[[big Other]], it became common for whereas a [[Frenchpassage to the act]] is a flight from the [[analystOther]]s to use into the term ''[[passage à l'actedimension]]'' to translate of the term ''[[Passage real]]. The [[passage to the act]] is thus an exit from the [[symbolic order|Agierensymbolic nework]], a [[dissolution]]'' used by of the [[Freudsocial]]: ibond.e. as Although the [[passage to the act]] does not, according to [[Lacan]], necessarily imply an underlying [[psychosis]], it does entail a synonym dissolution of the [[subject]]; for a [[moment]], the [[subject]] becomes a pure [[acting outobject]].

However, in his [[seminar]] of 1962-3, [[Lacan]] establishes a distinction between these terms. While both are last resorts against [[anxiety]], the [[subject]] who [[acting out|acts something out]] still remains in the [[scene]], whereas a [[passage to the act]] involves an exit from the [[scene]] altogether. ===Symbolic Order=Example==In [[Acting out]] is a symbolic message address 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 order|symbolic nework]], 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]]. ==Example from Freud==In order to illustrate what he means, [[Lacan]] refers to the [[case ]] of the young [[homosexual ]] woman treated by [[Freud]].<ref>{{F}} (1920a) "The Psychogenesis of a Case of [[Female ]] [[Homosexuality]]", [[SE]] XVIII, 147.</ref>  [[Freud]] reports that the young [[women ]] was [[walking ]] in the street with the woman she loved when she was spotted by her father, who cat 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 [[symbolic|symbolization]] 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 [[identification|identifying]] with the [[object]].  Thus she fell down ([[Ger]]. ''niederkommt'') like the ''[[objet petit a]]'', the leftover of [[signification]].<ref>Lacan{{L}} (1962-3) ''[[Seminar X|Le Séminaire. Livre X. L'angoisse, 1962-363]]'', unpublished. seminar Seminar of 16 january January 1963.</ref>