Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

acte manqué

English translation:

parapraxis

Added to glossary by Helen Shiner
Oct 5, 2009 23:18
14 yrs ago
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French term

acte manqué

French to English Other Psychology
L'acte manqué est un acte d'apparence illogique, traduisant un désir inconscient, refoulé, exprimé de façon involontaire (par exemple le lapsus). C’est en quelque sorte la révélation involontaire de ce que le sujet ne peut pas exprimer consciemment.

Cette notion a été introduite par Freud en 1901 dans son essai "Psychopathologie de la vie quotidienne".

Il s'agit de ratés du comportement dévoilant un conflit inconscient et susceptible de révéler involontairement l'intention d'un individu. Acte manqué est une émergence émergence, de fuite de conduite, de pulsion inconsciente, de désir anormalement refoulé.

http://www.vulgaris-medical.com/encyclopedie/acte-manque-212...
Proposed translations (English)
4 +10 parapraxis
4 +1 faulty act
4 failed act
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Oct 6, 2009 00:21: Travelin Ann changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

Oct 14, 2009 08:01: Helen Shiner Created KOG entry

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PRO (3): Helen Shiner, Rami Heled, Travelin Ann

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parapraxis

Also known as Freudian slip:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pVI1OF_FVzAC&pg=PA437&lpg...

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http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/acte manqué

http://www.definitions-de-psychologie.com/fr/definition/acte...

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Thanks for the points, cosmicgirl72
Peer comment(s):

agree Chris Hall : Yes, this is good enough for me Helen.
20 mins
Thanks, Chirs
agree Travelin Ann : c'est bon
57 mins
Merci, hooksett416
agree JH Trads : réponse non manquée
1 hr
Merci, Hugo!
agree Mary O’Connor (X)
3 hrs
Thanks, Mary
agree Melissa McMahon : The term was invented by Freud's English translator and has become the accepted terminology, though the German is also literally "failed act" and there might be a place to mention that depending on the context.
5 hrs
Thanks, Melissa, if it needs further explanation, then yes. It is, indeed, the accepted translation of the term
agree :::::::::: (X)
6 hrs
Thanks, Dr D Jones
agree Lianne Wilson
8 hrs
Thanks, Lianne
agree Lori Cirefice
8 hrs
Thanks, Lori
agree mimi 254
9 hrs
Thanks, mimi 254
agree Anne Pietrasik
10 hrs
Thanks, Anne
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failed act

Although the topic was not fully developed by Freud, the terms "act" and "action" appear frequently in his writings, whether he is discussing failed acts, ...
www.enotes.com/psychoanalysis.../act-action -

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or actes manqués in English

... the obsessional: the obsessional knows that "death is a failed act (acte manqué). ..... Le Ravissement, Poésie, in Le dire d

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15 Sep 2009 ... This is perhaps why the poem breaks off in the midst of an act of ..... matter of consciously performed speech acts than of unconscious actes manqués—which is why ..... The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond. ..... Yet it is precisely in the repeated misses of Celan's failed encounter with ...
muse.jhu.edu/journals/diacritics/v038/38.1-2.levine.html
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39 mins

faulty act

Peer comment(s):

agree Simona Nicoara (X)
17 hrs
merci
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