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"[[knowledge]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[connaissance]]''/''[[savoir]]'')
==Jacques Lacan==
[[Lacan]] distinguishes between two types of [[knowledge]]:
* [[knowledge|imaginary knowledge]] (''[[connaissance]]'') which is the [[knowledge]] of the [[ego]], and * [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] (''[[savoir]]''), which is the [[knowledge]] of the [[subject]]. ---- ''[[Savoir]]'' is the kind of [[knowledge]] which [[psychoanalytic treatment]] aims at.
It is both [[knowledge]] of the [[subject]]'s relation to the [[symbolic]] [[order]], and also that relation itself.
[[Symbolic]] [[knowledge]] does not reside in any particular [[subject]], nor in the [[Other]] (which is not a [[subject]] but a locus), but is [[intersubjective]].
However, this does not prevent one supposing that somewhere there is a [[subject]] who possesses this [[knowledge| symbolic]] [[knowledge]] (the [[subject supposed to know]]).
==Connaissance==
''[[Connaissance]]'' (and its necessary correlate, ''[[meconnaissance]]'') is the kind of self-[[knowledge]] that belongs to the [[imaginary]] [[order]]. It is by misunderstanding and misrecognition (''[[meconnaissance]]'') that the [[subject]] comes to the [[knowledge|imaginary knowledge]] of himself (''me-connsaissance'') which is constitutive of the [[ego]].<ref>{{E}} p.306</ref> The [[ego]] is thus an [[illusory]] kind of self-knowledge based on a [[fantasy]] of self-mastery and [[unity]].
[[ImaginaryPsychoanalytic treatment]] [[knowledge]] is called "[[paranoiac]] [[knowledge]]" by [[Lacan]] because it has must therefore continually subvert the same [[structuresubject]] as 's [[paranoiaimaginary]] (both involve a [[delusion]] of [[absolute self-knowledge]] and [[mastery]]), and because one of in order to reveal the preconditions of all [[humansymbolic]] [[self-knowledge]] is the "paranoiac alienation of the ego."<ref>{{E}} pwhich it blocks.2; Lacan, 1951b: 12</ref>
==See Also==* [[Imaginary]] [[knowledge]] is an obstacle which hinders the [[subject]]s access Subject supposed to [[symbolic]] [[knowledgeknow]].
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
