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Acting out as deferred action, acting out for deferred action Developing the hypothesis that acting out (agieren) is to repetition what screen-memory is to recollection, bringing together elements of a different nature and temporality, the author explores various functions of acting out for deferred action, starting from Freud's text ? Two lies told by children ?. She proposes a distinction between ? acting out as deferred action ?, which may be confused with the occurrence of deferred action, from ? acting out for deferred action ?, in which acted-out repetition helps to create a scene that will serve the retroactive process. She questions the deferred action of psychic processes that do not automatically entail any presentation, such as narcissistic identifications.