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"{{Topp}}connaissance]]''/''[[savoir{{Bottom}} In [[knowledgeLacan]]''connaissance'' (with its inevitable concomitant, " (''[[Frméconnaissance]]. ''") belongs to the [[connaissanceimaginary]] [[order|register]], while ''/savoir''belongs to the [[savoirsymbolic]] [[order|register]]'').<ref>{{Ec}} p. 281</ref>

===Definition===The term "[[Lacanknowledge]] distinguishes between " has two types of [[knowledgemeanings]]: * in [[knowledge|imaginary knowledgeLacan]] (''s [[connaissanceJacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]]'') which is the . [[knowledgeLacan]] distinguishes between two types of the [[egoknowledge]], and :* [[knowledge|symbolic imaginary knowledge]] (''[[savoirFrench]]: '''''), which is the [[knowledgeconnaissance]] of the [[subject]].  ---- ''[[Savoir]]'' is ') -- the kind of [[knowledge]] which [[psychoanalytic treatment]] aims at. It is both [[knowledge]] of the '''[[subjectego]]'s relation to the [[symbolic]] [[order]]'', and also that relation itself. This * [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] is the articulation of ([[signifierFrench]]s in the : '''''[[subjectsavoir]]'s [[symbolic]] universe, '''') -- the [[signifying chain]] (S2). The [[unconscious]] is simply another name for [[symbolic]] [[knowledge]] insofar as it is an "unknown knowledge," a [[knowledge]] which the [[subject]] does not know it knows. [[Psychoanalytic treatment]] aims at a progressive revelation of this [[knowledge]] to the '''[[subject]], and is based on the premise that theonly menas of access to this [[knowledge]] is via a particular form of [[speech]] called [[free association]]'''.

However, ===Unknown Knowledge===The "'''[[psychoanalytic treatmentunconscious]] does not aim at a '''" is simply [[Hegelanother]]ian '[[absolute knowledgename]],' because the for [[unconsciousknowledge|symbolic knowledge]] is irreducible; there insofar as it is an inescapable division between the "[[subjectknowledge|unknown knowledge]] and ," a [[knowledge]]which the [[subject]] ''does not know it knows''.

===Absolute Knowledge==='''[[Symbolictreatment|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]] of ," because the [[truthunconscious]] is irreducible; there is an inescapable '''[[split|division]] about one's '' between the '''[[unconscioussubject]] ''' and '''[[desireknowledge]]'''.

===''Jouissance''' of the Other===[[Knowledge|Symbolic knowledge]] in 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]], nor in the but is '''[[Otherintersubjective]] (which '''. However, this does not prevent one supposing that somewhere there is not a [[subject]] but a locuswho possesses this [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] (the '''[[subject supposed to know]]'''), but . The [[knowledge]] is ''attributed'' to the [[analyst]] by the [[analysand]] in [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]]. The [[intersubjectiveanalysand]] attributes [[knowledge]] to the [[analyst]] in [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]].

However, this does not prevent one supposing that somewhere there is a ==''Connaissance''==[[subjectKnowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] who possesses this refers to the [[knowledge| symbolic self-knowledge]] (of the [[subject supposed to know]]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>

==Connaissance=Paranoiac Knowledge===[[knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] is called "'''[[knowledge|paranoiac knowledge]]'''" because it has the same '''[[structure]]''' as '''[[paranoia]]''' (both involve the [[delusion]] of [[absolute knowledge]] and [[master|mastery]]), and because one of the preconditions of all [[knowledge|human knowledge]] is the "'''[[paranoiac]] [[alienation]] of the ego'''."<ref>{{E}} p. 2</ref>

''[[Connaissance]]'' (and its necessary correlate, ''[[meconnaissance]]'') is the kind of self-===Resistance===[[Knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] that belongs to the [[imaginary]] [[order]]. It is by misunderstanding and misrecognition (''[[meconnaissance]]an '') that the [[subject]] comes to the [[knowledgeresistance|imaginary knowledgeobstacle]] 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]]. [[Imaginary]] [[knowledge]] is called "[[knowledge|paranoiac knowledge]]" by [[Lacan]] because it has the same [[structure]] as [[paranoia]] (both involve a [[delusion]] of [[absolute knowledge]] and [[mastery]]), and because one of the preconditions of all [[human]] [[knowledge]] is the "paranoiac alienation of the ego."<ref>{{E}} p.2</ref> [[Knowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] is an 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.

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