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==Translation==
Translator, Alan Sheridan, has decided to retain the French word.
The sense is of a "failure to recognize", or "misconstruction".
The concept is central to [[Lacan]]'s thinking, since, for him, [[knowledge]] (''conaissance'') is inextricably bound up with ''méconnaissance''.
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The [[French]] term ''[[méconnaissance]]'' corresponds roughly to the [[English]] words "[[Méconnaissance|misunderstanding]]" and "[[Méconnaissance|misrecognition]]".