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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>
==Jacques Lacan==
===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]]'''.
===Unconscious as an "Unknown Absolute Knowledge"==='''[[treatment|Psychoanalytic treatment]]''' involves a way to access [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]], via a [[particular]] [[form]] of [[speech]] called '''[[free association]]'''. The [[unconsciousend of analysis|aim]] of '''[[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]] ''' is simply another name for the ''[[progress|progressive reveletion]]'' of [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] insofar as it is an to the [[subject]], rather than "unknown [[knowledge|absolute knowledge]]," a because the [[unconscious]] is irreducible; there is an inescapable '''[[knowledgesplit|division]] which ''' between the '''[[subject]] does not know it knows''' and '''[[knowledge]]'''.
===Aim of Psychoanalytic Treatment===''[[Savoir]]Jouissance'' is the kind of [[knowledge]] which [[psychoanalytic treatment]] aims at. [[Psychoanalytic treatment]] aims at a progressive revelation of this [[knowledge]] to the [[subject]], and is based on the premise that the only means of access to this [[knowledge]] is via a particular form of [[speech]] called [[free association]]. 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>
===Subject Supposed to Know===
[[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]].
==''Connaissance''==
===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.
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