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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]]: 

====Symbolic Knowledge==''Savoir''==[[knowledge|Symbolic knowledge]] refers to both the [[knowledge]] of the '''[[subject]]''''s ''relation'' to the '''[[symbolic]] [[order]]''', and also to that ''relation'' itself. It is the articulation of '''[[signifier]]s''' in the [[subject]]'s [[symbolic|symbolic universe]], the '''[[signifying chain]]''' ([[Image:SS2.gif]]).

It is the articulation of ===Unknown Knowledge===The "'''[[signifierunconscious]]s''' in the " is simply [[another]] [[subjectname]]'s for [[knowledge|symbolicknowledge]] insofar as it is an "[[knowledge|symbolic universeunknown knowledge]], " a [[knowledge]] which the '''[[signifying chainsubject]]''does not know it knows'' ([[Image:SS2.gif]]).

====Unknown Absolute Knowledge====The "'''[[unconscioustreatment|Psychoanalytic treatment]]'''" is simply another name for involves a way to access [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] insofar as it is an ", via a [[knowledge|unknown knowledgeparticular]]," a [[knowledgeform]] which the of [[subjectspeech]] called ''does not know it knows'[[free association]]'''. ====Absolute Knowledge====The [[end of analysis|aim]] of '''[[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]]''' is the ''[[progress|progressive reveletion]] '' of [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] to the [[subject]], for the only means of access to this [[knowledge]] is via a particular form of [[speech]] called '''[[free association]]'''. However, the [[treatment]] does not aim at a [[dialectic|Hegelian]] rather than "[[knowledge|absolute knowledge]]," because the [[unconscious]] is irreducible; there is an inescapable '''[[split|division]]''' between the '''[[subject]]''' and '''[[knowledge]]'''.

[[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> [[Knowledge]] in this sense is a form of '''''[[jouissance]]''''': "[[knowledge]] is of the '''[[jouissanceOther]]'' 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.