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French term or phrase:	acte manqué
English translation:	parapraxis
Entered by:	Helen Shiner

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23:18 Oct 5, 2009

French to English translations [PRO]
Psychology

French term or phrase: acte manqué

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...

cosmicgirl72

parapraxis

Explanation:
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

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Helen Shiner
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Local time: 09:12

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Summary of answers provided

4 +10

parapraxis

Helen Shiner

4 +1

faulty act

Rami Heled

failed act

Drmanu49

Answers

2 mins confidence:

failed act

Explanation:
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

Drmanu49
France
Local time: 10:12
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 38

39 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

faulty act

Explanation:
see http://dictionary.reverso.net/medical-english-french/faulty ...
or
http://www.arabpsynet.com/edictbooks/a.ef.pdf
and many others

Rami Heled
Israel
Local time: 11:12
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French,

Hebrew

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +10

parapraxis

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:12
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 23

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

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

Hugo: réponse non manquée

1 hr

-> Merci, Hugo!

agree

Mary O’Connor

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, Mary, if it needs further explanation, then yes. It is, indeed, the accepted translation of the term

agree