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An "[[act]]" is not mere "[[act|behavior]]" -- such as that of all '''[[nature|animals]]''' -- but a uniquely [[act|''human'' act]], "since to our [[knowledge]] there is no other [[act]] but the [[human]] one."<ref>{{S11}} p. 50</ref>
=====Ethicsof Psychoanalysis=====The "[[act]]" is an '''[[ethics|ethical concept]] ''' insofar as the '''[[act|actorsubject]] ''' can be held '''[[responsibility|responsible]] ''' for it. A fundamental quality of an [[act]] is that the actor can be held [[responsible]] for it; the concept of the [[act]] is thus an [[ethical]] [[concept]]. 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. =====Parapraxes=====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]].
The [[Freudpsychoanalytic]] called these 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]]s "which he claims was un[[parapraxesintention]]al," or "but which [[analysis]] reveals to be the expression of an '''[[unconscious]] [[bungled actionsdesire]]'''."
[[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>[[Freud{{FB}}|Freud, Sigmund]]. ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|The Psychopathology of Everyday Life]]''. [[SE]] VI. 1901.</ref>
=====Analysand=====In '''[[lawpsychoanalytic]], a [[treatment]]''' the [[subject]] cannot be found is faced with the '''[[ethical]] [[guiltyduty]] ''' of murder (assuming '''[[responsibility]]''' even for example) unless it can be proved that the '''[[unconscious]] [[actdesire]] was s''' expressed in his '''[[intentionaction]]als'''.
[[Lacan]] dedicates a year of his [[seminar]] to discussing further the nature of the [[act|psychoanalytic act]].<ref>[[Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. ''[[Seminar XI|Le Séminaire. Livre XV. L'acte psychanalytique, 1967-68]]''. Unpublished.</ref>
=====Conclusion=====
A '''[[bungled action]] ''' is, as has been stated, successful from the point of view of the [[unconscious]].
Nevertheless, this success is only partial because the [[unconscious]] [[desire]] is expressed in a distorted form.
It follows that, when it is fully and [[conscious]]ly assumed, "suicide is the only completely successful act."<ref>[[Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. ''[[Television|Télévision]]'', Paris: Seuil, 1973. ''[[Television|Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment]]'', ed. Joan Copjec, trans. Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss and Annette Michelson, New York: Norton, 1990]. p.66-7</ref>
The [[act]] expresses completely an [[intention]] which is both [[conscious]] and [[unconscious]], the [[conscious]] assumption of the '''[[unconscious]] [[death drive]] ''' (on the other hand, a sudden impulsive suicide attempt is not a true [[act]], but probably a '''[[passage to the act]]''').
The '''[[death drive]] ''' is thus closely connected with the [[ethics|ethical domain]] in [[Lacan]]'s thought.
=====See Also=====
<blockquote>[[Repetition]] first appears in a form that is not clear, that is not self-evident, like a reproduction, or a making present, ''in act''. That is why I have placed ''The Act'' with a large question-mark at the bottom of the blackboard so as to indicate that, as long as we speak of the relations of [[repetition]] with the [[real]], this [[act]] will remain on our horizon.</blockquote>
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