[[Knowledge|Symbolic knowledge]] is [[knowledge]] of the '''[[truth]]''' about one's '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''.
[[Knowledge|Symbolic knowledge]] is [[knowledge]] of the '''[[truth]]''' about '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''. [[Knowledge|Symbolic knowledge]] is [[knowledge]] of the '''[[truth]]''' of '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''. In this sense, [[knowledge]] is a form of '''''[[jouissance]]''''': "'''[[knowledge]] is the ''[[jouissance]]'' of the [[Other]]'''."<ref>{{S17}} p.13</ref> In this sense, [[knowledgejouissance]] is a form of '''''[[jouissance]]of the ''''': <blockquote>"[[knowledgeOther]] is the ''[[jouissance]]'' of the [[Other]]."<ref>{{S17}} p.13</ref></blockquote>
===Subject Supposed to Know===
However, this does not prevent one supposing that somewhere there is a [[subject]] who possesses this [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] (the '''[[subject supposed to know]]''').
The [[knowledge]] is ''attributed'' by the [[analysand]] to the [[analyst]] in [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]].
The [[knowledge]] is ''attributed'' to the [[analyst]] by the [[analysand]] in [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]].
In [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]], [[knowledge]] is ''attributed'' to the [[analyst]] by the [[analysand]].
The [[analysand]] attributes [[knowledge]] to the [[analyst]] in [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]].
In [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]], the [[analysand]] attributes [[knowledge]] to the [[analyst]].
===Imaginary Knowledge===
[[Knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] refers to a type of illusory [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] in the '''[[imaginary]] [[order]]'''. [[Knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] refers to a type kind of illusory [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] belonging to the '''[[imaginary]] [[order]]'''. [[Knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] refers to the kind of illusory [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] that belongs to the '''[[imaginary]] [[order]]'''.
The [[Knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] which refers to the illusory [[subjectknowledge|self-knowledge]] acquires about himself, by that belongs to the '''[[misunderstanding|méconnaissanceimaginary]] and [[misrecognition|méconnaissanceorder]] (''[[méconnaissance]]''), is constitutive of the [[ego]].<ref>{{E}} p.306</ref>
It is by [[misunderstandingKnowledge|méconnaissanceImaginary knowledge]] and refers to a kind of illusory [[misrecognitionknowledge|méconnaissanceself-knowledge]] (belonging to the ''[[méconnaissance]]'') that the [[subjectimaginary]] acquires the [[knowledge|self-knowledgeorder]] which is constitutive of the [[ego]].<ref>{{E}} p'''.306</ref>
The [[ego]] is thus an This [[delusion|illusory]] kind of [[knowledge|self-knowledge]], [[knowledge]] that the [[subject]] acquires about himself through [[méconnaissance|misunderstanding]] and [[méconnaissance|misrecognition]] (''[[méconnaissance]]''), [[knowledge]] based on a [[fantasy]] of [[master|self-mastery ]] and [[gestalt|unity]], is constitutive of the [[ego]].<ref>{{E}} p.306</ref>
==="Paranoiac Knowledge"===
