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==Jacques Lacan==
===Definition===
The term "[[knowledge]]" has two meanings in [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]]:
It is the articulation of '''[[signifier]]s''' in the [[subject]]'s [[symbolic|symbolic universe]], the '''[[signifying chain]]''' ([[Image:SS2.gif]]).
====Unknown Knowledge====
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''.
====Absolute Knowledge====
'''[[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]]'''.
====''Jouissance''' of the Other====
[[Knowledge|Symbolic knowledge]] is [[knowledge]] of the '''[[truth]]''' about one's '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''.
In this sense, [[knowledge]] is a form of '''''[[jouissance]]''''': "[[knowledge]] is the '''''[[jouissance]]''''' of the '''[[Other]]'''."<ref>{{S17}} p. 13</ref>
====Subject Supposed to Know====
[[knowledge|Symbolic knowledge]] does not reside in any particular [[subject]], but is '''[[intersubjective]]'''.
===Imaginary Knowledge===
[[Knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] refers to the [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] of the [[subject]] in the '''[[imaginary]] [[order]]'''.
This [[delusion|illusory]] kind of [[knowledge]], based on [[méconnaissance|misunderstanding]], [[méconnaissance|misrecognition]] (''[[méconnaissance]]''), and a [[fantasy]] of [[master|self-mastery]] and [[gestalt|unity]], is constitutive of the [[ego]].<ref>{{E}} p. 306</ref>
===Imaginary Obstacle to Symbolic Knowledge=Resistance====[[Knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] is an ''[[resistance|obstacle ]]'' which hinders the [[subject]]'s access to [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]].
'''[[Treatment|Psychoanalytic treatment]] ''' must therefore continually subvert the [[subject]]'s [[knowledge|imaginary]] [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] in order to reveal the [[knowledge|symbolic]] [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] which it blocks.
==See Also==
