This article defines the concept of passing to the act in relation to acting- out and distinguishes the subjective responses they involve. From the distinctions proposed by Lacan among them based on the concept of object a, we seek to situate the subject in both modes of act, aiming to put into the clinical discussion, the discrete passages to the act and to question the role of substitutive that they supposedly perform. To this end, two fragments cases of anorexia presented in psychoanalytic literature are discussed. In the first one, the object to which the subject identifies itself is circumscribed, while in the other one, the point is the object brought to the scene by the subject.
acting-out; passage to the act; psychoanalysis; clinic
