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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.
== Ethics of Psychoanalysis ==
The [[ethics]] of [[psychoanalysis]] enjoin the [[analyst]] to assume [[responsibility]] for his or her [[act]]s (i.e. interventions in the [[treatment]]).
==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.
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