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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>

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]]). ====Unknown Knowledge====The "'''[[unconscious]]'''" is simply another name for [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] insofar as it is an "[[knowledge|unknown knowledge]]," a [[knowledge]] which the [[subject]] ''does not know it knows''. ====Absolute Knowledge===='''[[treatment|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]]," because the [[unconscious]] is irreducible; there is an inescapable '''[[split|division]]''' between the '''[[subject]]''' and '''[[knowledge]]'''. ====''Jouissance''' of the Other====[[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> ====Subject Supposed to Know====[[knowledge|Symbolic knowledge]] does not reside in any particular [[subject]], 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]]''').

===Unknown Knowledge===The "'''[[knowledgeunconscious]] is ''attributed'' to the " is simply [[analystanother]] by the [[analysandname]] in for [[treatmentknowledge|psychoanalytic treatmentsymbolic knowledge]]insofar as it is an "[[knowledge|unknown knowledge]]," a [[knowledge]] which the [[subject]] ''does not know it knows''.

===Absolute Knowledge==='''[[treatment|Psychoanalytic treatment]]''' involves a way to access [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]], via a [[particular]] [[form]] of [[speech]] called '''[[free association]]'''. The [[analysandend of analysis|aim]] attributes of '''[[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]]''' is the ''[[progress|progressive reveletion]]'' of [[knowledge|symbolic knowledge]] to the [[analystsubject]], rather than "[[knowledge|absolute knowledge]]," because the [[unconscious]] in is irreducible; there is an inescapable '''[[treatmentsplit|psychoanalytic treatmentdivision]]''' between the '''[[subject]]''' and '''[[knowledge]]'''.

===Imaginary Knowledge''Jouissance''' of the Other===[[Knowledge|Imaginary Symbolic knowledge]] is [[knowledge]] refers to of the '''[[truth]]''' [[about]] one's '''[[unconscious]] [[desire]]'''. In this [[sense]], [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] is a form of the '''''[[jouissance]]''''': "[[subjectknowledge]] in is the '''''[[imaginaryjouissance]] ''''' of the '''[[orderOther]]'''."<ref>{{S17}} p. 13</ref>

This ===Subject Supposed to Know===[[delusionknowledge|illusorySymbolic knowledge]] kind of does not reside in any particular [[knowledgesubject]], based on but is '''[[méconnaissance|misunderstandingintersubjective]]'''. However, this does not prevent one supposing that somewhere there is a [[méconnaissancesubject]] who possesses this [[knowledge|misrecognitionsymbolic knowledge]] (the '''[[méconnaissancesubject supposed to know]]'''), and a . The [[knowledge]] is ''attributed'' to the [[analyst]] by the [[fantasyanalysand]] of in [[mastertreatment|self-masterypsychoanalytic treatment]]. The [[analysand]] and attributes [[gestalt|unityknowledge]], is constitutive of to the [[egoanalyst]] in [[treatment|psychoanalytic treatment]].<ref>{{E}} p. 306</ref>

====Paranoiac Knowledge==''Connaissance''==[[knowledgeKnowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] is called "'''refers to the [[knowledge|paranoiac self-knowledge]]'''" because it has of the [[subject]] in the same '''[[structureimaginary]]''' as '''[[paranoiaorder]]''' (both involve the . This [[delusion|illusory]] kind of [[absolute knowledge]] , based on [[méconnaissance|misunderstanding]], [[méconnaissance|misrecognition]] (''[[méconnaissance]]''), and a [[fantasy]] of [[master|self-mastery]]), and because one of the preconditions of all [[knowledgegestalt|human knowledgeunity]] , is the "'''paranoiac alienation constitutive of the [[ego''']]."<ref>{{E}} p. 2306</ref>

====Resistance=Paranoiac Knowledge===[[Knowledgeknowledge|Imaginary knowledge]] is an called "'''[[resistanceknowledge|obstacleparanoiac knowledge]]'' which hinders '" because it has the same '''[[subjectstructure]]'s access to '' as '''[[paranoia]]''' (both involve the [[delusion]] of [[absolute knowledge]] and [[master|symbolic mastery]]), and because one of the preconditions of all [[knowledge|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.