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ACTSee ACT!. act 1. the formally codified result of deliberation by a legislative body; a law, edict, decree, statute, etc. 2. a formal written record of transactions, proceedings, etc., as of a society, committee, or legislative body 3. a major division of a dramatic work 4. a. a short performance of skill, a comic sketch, dance, etc., esp one that is part of a programme of light entertainment b. those giving such a performance 5. Philosophy an occurrence effected by the volition of a human agent, usually opposed at least as regards its explanation to one which is causally determined ACT (in New Zealand) Association of Consumers and Taxpayers: a small political party of the right
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| As Edith
Jacobson suggests, the point of the acting out is to deny this
anxiety. Acting out splits the trauma scene,
divides and conquers, at least for the time being, the immediate
evacuation effects of the first strike of loss, and thus skips the
downbeat of psychotic shutdown. |
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