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In [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] the [[subject]] is faced with the [[ethical]] [[duty]] of assuming [[responsibility]] even for the [[unconscious]] [[desire]]s expressed in his [[action]]s.
He must recognise recognize even apparently accidental [[action]]s as true [[act]]s which express an [[intention]], 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 [[action]]s.
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]]).
