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{{TopTopp}}connaissance]]''/''[[savoir{{Bottom}} In [[Lacan]] ''connaissance'' (with its inevitable concomitant, "''[[méconnaissance]]''") belongs to the [[imaginary]] [[order|register]], while ''savoir'' belongs to the [[symbolic]] [[order|register]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 281</ref>

===Definition===The term "[[knowledge]]" has two [[meanings ]] in [[Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]]: . [[Lacan]] distinguishes between two types of [[knowledge]]: * [[knowledge|imaginary knowledge]] ([[French]]: '''''[[connaissance]]'''''), -- the [[knowledge]] of the '''[[ego]]''', and  * [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] ([[French]]: '''''[[savoir]]'''''), -- the [[knowledge]] of the '''[[subject]]'''.

===Symbolic Knowledge===''[[Savoirknowledge|Symbolic knowledge]]'' is refers to both the [[knowledge]] of the '''[[subject]]''''s ''relation '' to the '''[[symbolic]] [[order]]''', and also to that ''relation '' itself. This [[knowledge]] It is the articulation of '''[[signifier]]s ''' in the [[subject]]'s [[symbolic|symbolic universe]], the '''[[signifying chain]] ''' ([[Image:SS2.gif]]). ===Unconscious as an "Unknown Knowledge"===The [[unconscious]] is simply another name for [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] insofar as it is an "unknown knowledge," a [[knowledge]] which the [[subject]] does not know it knows.

===Aim of Psychoanalytic TreatmentUnknown Knowledge===The "'''[[Savoirunconscious]]'' '" is the kind of simply [[another]] [[name]] for [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] insofar as it is an "[[knowledge|unknown knowledge]]," a [[knowledge]] which the [[psychoanalytic treatmentsubject]] aims at''does not know it knows''.

===Absolute Knowledge==='''[[treatment|Psychoanalytic treatment]] aims at ''' 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 revelation reveletion]]'' of this [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] to the [[subject]], and is based on rather than "[[knowledge|absolute knowledge]]," because the premise that the only means of access to this [[knowledgeunconscious]] is via a particular form of irreducible; there is an inescapable '''[[split|division]]''' between the '''[[speechsubject]] called ''' and '''[[free associationknowledge]]'''.

However, [[psychoanalytic treatment]] does not aim at a [[Hegel]]ian "[[absolute knowledge]]," because the [[unconscious]] is irreducible; there is an inescapable division between the [[subject]] and [[knowledge]]. ==="Knowledge is the ''Jouissance''' of the Other"===[[Knowledge|Symbolic]] [[knowledge]] is [[knowledge]] of the '''[[truth]] ''' [[about ]] one's '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''.  In this [[sense]], [[Knowledgeknowledge]] in this sense is a form of '''''[[jouissance]]''''': "[[knowledge]] is the '''''[[jouissance]]''''' of the '''[[Other]]'''."<ref>{{S17}} p.13</ref>

[[knowledge|Symbolic]] [[knowledge]] does not reside in any particular [[subject]], nor in the [[Other]] (which is not a [[subject]] but a locus), but is '''[[intersubjective]]'''.  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'' to the [[analyst]] by the [[analysand]] in [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]]. The [[analysand]] attributes [[knowledge]] to the [[analyst]] in [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]].

===Imaginary Knowledge===''[[ConnaissanceKnowledge|Imaginary knowledge]]'' (and its necessary correlate, ''[[méconnaissance]]'') is refers to the kind of [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] that belongs to of the [[imaginarysubject]] [[order]]. It is by misunderstanding and misrecognition (in the ''[[méconnaissance]]'') that the [[subjectimaginary]] comes to the [[knowledge|imaginary knowledgeorder]] of himself (''me-connaissance'') which is constitutive of the [[ego]].<ref>{{E}} p.306</ref> The [[ego]] is thus an This [[delusion|illusory]] kind of [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] , based on a [[fantasyméconnaissance|misunderstanding]] of self-mastery and , [[unity]]. ==="Paranoiac Knowledge"===[[Imaginary]] [[knowledge]] is called "[[knowledgeméconnaissance|paranoiac knowledgemisrecognition]]" by (''[[Lacanméconnaissance]] because it has the same [[structure]] as [[paranoia]] (both involve ''), and a [[delusionfantasy]] of [[absolute knowledgemaster|self-mastery]] and [[masterygestalt|unity]]), and because one is constitutive of the preconditions of all [[human]] [[knowledgeego]] is the "paranoiac alienation of the ego."<ref>{{E}} p.2306</ref>

===Imaginary Obstacle to Symbolic Paranoiac Knowledge===[[Knowledgeknowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] is an obstacle which hinders called "'''[[knowledge|paranoiac knowledge]]'''" because it has the same '''[[structure]]''' as '''[[paranoia]]''' (both involve the [[delusion]] of [[subjectabsolute knowledge]]s access to and [[master|mastery]]), and because one of the preconditions of all [[knowledge|symbolic human knowledge]]is the "'''[[paranoiac]] [[alienation]] of the ego'''."<ref>{{E}} p.2</ref>

===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.