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* [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] ([[French]]: '''''[[savoir]]''''') -- the [[knowledge]] of the '''[[subject]]'''.
[[knowledge|Symbolic knowledge]] refers to both the [[knowledge]] of the '''[[subject]]''''s ''relation'' to the '''[[symbolic]] [[order]]''', and also to that ''relation'' itself.
It is the articulation of '''[[signifier]]s''' in the [[subject]]'s [[symbolic|symbolic universe]], the '''[[signifying chain]]''' ([[Image:SS2.gif]]).
The "'''[[unconscious]]'''" is simply another name for [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] insofar as it is an "[[knowledge|unknown knowledge]]," a [[knowledge]] which the [[subject]] ''does not know it knows''.
'''[[treatment|Psychoanalytic treatment]]''' involves a way to access [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]], via a particular form of [[speech]] called '''[[free association]]'''.
The [[end of analysis|aim]] of '''[[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]]''' is the ''[[progress|progressive reveletion]]'' of [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] to the [[subject]], rather than "[[knowledge|absolute knowledge]]," because the [[unconscious]] is irreducible; there is an inescapable '''[[split|division]]''' between the '''[[subject]]''' and '''[[knowledge]]'''.
[[Knowledge|Symbolic knowledge]] is [[knowledge]] of the '''[[truth]]''' about one's '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''.
[[Knowledge|Symbolic knowledge]] is [[knowledge]] of the '''[[truth]]''' of '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]] in '''. In this sense , [[knowledge]] is a form of '''''[[jouissance]]''''': "'''[[knowledge]] is the ''[[jouissance]]'' of the [[Other]]'''."<ref>{{S17}} p.13</ref> In this sense, [[knowledge]] is a form of '''''[[jouissance]]''''': <blockquote>"[[knowledge]] is the ''[[jouissance]]'' of the [[Other]]."<ref>{{S17}} p.13</ref></blockquote>
===Subject Supposed to Know===
[[knowledge|Symbolic]] [[knowledge]] does not reside in any particular [[subject]], nor in the but is '''[[Otherintersubjective]] (which '''. However, this does not prevent one supposing that somewhere there is not a [[subject]] but a locus), but is who possesses this [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] (the '''[[intersubjectivesubject supposed to know]]''').
===Imaginary Knowledge===
[[Knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] refers to a type of illusory [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] in the '''[[Connaissanceimaginary]][[order]]''' (and its necessary correlate, . [[Knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] refers to a type of illusory [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] belonging to the '''[[méconnaissanceimaginary]] [[order]]'') is '. [[Knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] refers to the kind of illusory [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] that belongs to the '''[[imaginary]] [[order]]'''. The [[knowledge]] which the [[subject]] acquires about himself, by [[misunderstanding|méconnaissance]] and [[misrecognition|méconnaissance]] (''[[méconnaissance]]''), is constitutive of the [[ego]].<ref>{{E}} p.306</ref>
It is by [[misunderstanding |méconnaissance]] and [[misrecognition |méconnaissance]] (''[[méconnaissance]]'') that the [[subject]] comes to acquires the [[knowledge|imaginary self-knowledge]] of himself (''me-connaissance'') which is constitutive of the [[ego]].<ref>{{E}} p.306</ref>
The [[ego]] is thus an [[illusory]] kind of [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] based on a [[fantasy]] of self-mastery and [[unity]].
