The [[French]] term ''[[{{Top}}misrecognition|méconnaissance]]'' corresponds roughly to the [[English]] words "[[Méconnaissance|misunderstanding]]" and "[[Méconnaissance|misrecognition]]".{{Bottom}}
However===Translation===Translator, Alan [[Sheridan]], has decided to retain the French [[word]]. The [[Frenchsense]] term is usually left untranslated when translating of a "failure to recognize", or "misconstruction". The [[Lacanconcept]] into is central to [[EnglishLacan]] in order to show its close relationship with the term ''s [[connaissancethinking]]'' (", since, for him, [[knowledge]]"(''conaissance'')is inextricably bound up with ''méconnaissance''.
Thus, in the The [[imaginaryFrench]] term ''[[orderméconnaissance]]'' corresponds roughly to the [[English]], [[knowledge|self-knowledgewords]] (''me-connaissance'') is synonymous with "[[méconnaissanceMéconnaissance|misunderstanding]] (''" and "[[méconnaissanceMéconnaissance|misrecognition]]'')". However, because the process by which the [[egoFrench]] term is formed usually [[left]] untranslated when translating [[Lacan]] into [[English]] in the order to show its close [[mirror stagerelationship]] is at with the same time the institution of term ''[[alienationconnaissance]] from the symbolic determination of '' ("[[beingknowledge]]").
===Neurotic Self-Knowledge===Thus, in the [[imaginary]] [[order]], [[knowledge|self-knowledge]] (''me-connaissance'') is synonymous with [[méconnaissance|misunderstanding]] (''[[méconnaissance]]''), because the [[process]] by which the [[ego]] is formed in the [[mirror stage]] is at the same [[time]] the institution of [[alienation]] from the [[symbolic]] determination of [[being]].
===Paranoid Delusions===As well as being the [[structure]] of ordinary [[neurotic]] [[knowledge|self-knowledge]], ''[[méconnaissance]]'' is also the [[structure]] of [[paranoiac]] [[delusions]], which are described in [[terms ]] of a ''[[méconnaissance|méconnaissance systématique de la reéalité]]''.<ref>{{L}} "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Some Reflections on the Ego]]," ''Int. J. [[Psycho]]-[[Anal]].'', vol. 34, 1953 [1951b]. p.12</ref>
===Paranoiac Knowledge===
This [[structural]] homology between the ordinary [[constitution]] of the [[ego]] and [[paranoiac]] [[delusions]] is what leads [[Lacan]] to describe all [[knowledge]] (''[[connaissance]]''), in both [[neurosis]] and [[psychosis]], as "[[knowledge|paranoiac knowledge]]."
This structural homology between the ordinary constitution ===Ignorance===''[[Méconnaissance]]'' is to be distinguished from [[knowledge|ignorance]], which is one of the [[egothree]] and [[paranoiacaffect|passions]] . Whereas [[delusionsknowledge|ignorance]] is what leads a [[Lacanaffect|passion]] to describe all for the [[absence]] of [[knowledge]] (, ''[[connaissanceméconnaissance]]''), in both is an [[imaginary]] [[neurosismisrecognition]] and of a [[psychosissymbolic]], as "[[knowledge|paranoiac knowledge]](''[[savoir]]'') that the [[subject]] does possess somewhere."
--<blockquote>Misrecognition is not [[ignorance]]. Misrecognition represents a certain organization of affirmations and negations, to which the subject is attached. Hence it cannot be conceived without correlate knowledge... There must surely be, behind his misrecognition, a kind of knowledge of what there is to misrecognize.<ref>{{S1}} p.167</ref></blockquote>
==Ego Formation==Again, this applies both in the ordinary [[construction]] of the [[ego]] and in [[paranoia]]. In the former [[case]], the [[ego]] is basically a [[Méconnaissance|misrecognition]] of the [[symbolic]] determinants of [[subjectivity]] (the [[discourse]] of the [[Other]], the [[unconscious]]). In the latter case, [[paranoiac]] [[delusions]] always imply a [[Méconnaissance|recognition]] (''[[Méconnaissance|reconnaissance]]'' ), as is to be distinguished from evident in [[knowledgeMéconnaissance|ignorancesystematic misunderstanding]](''méconnaissance systématique''), where it must clearly be admitted that that which is one of the three denied is in some way [[affectMéconnaissance|passionsrecognized]](''reconnu'').<ref>{{Ec}} p.165</ref>
Whereas ==See Also=={{See}}* [[knowledge|ignoranceAlienation]]* [[Being]] is a * [[affect|passionDelusion]] for the ||* [[absenceEgo]] of * [[knowledgeImaginary]], ''* [[méconnaissanceKnowledge]]'' is an ||* [[imaginaryMirror stage]] * [[misrecognitionNeurosis]] of a * [[symbolicOther]] ||* [[knowledgeParanoia]] (''* [[savoirSubject]]'') tha tthe * [[subjectSymbolic]] does possess somewhere.{{Also}}
==References==<blockquotediv style="font-size:11px" class="references-small">Misrecognition is not ignorance. Misrecognition represents a certain organization of affirmations and negations, to which the subject is attached. Hence it cannot be conceived without correlate knowledge... There must surely be, behind his misrecognition, a kind of knowledge of what there is to misrecognize.<ref>{{S1}} p.167<references/ref></blockquotediv>
Again, this applies both in the ordinary construction of the [[egoCategory:Psychoanalysis]] and in [[paranoiaCategory:Jacques Lacan]]. In the former case, the [[egoCategory:Dictionary]] is basically a misrecognition of the [[symbolicCategory:Imaginary]] determinants of [[subjectivityCategory:Concepts]] (the [[discourse]] of the [[Other]], the [[unconsciousCategory:Terms]]). In the latter case, [[paranoiac]] [[delusions]] always imply a recognition (''reconnaissance''), as is evident in systematic misunderstanding (méconnaissance systématique), where it must clearly be admitted that that which is denied is in some way recognized (''reconnu'').<ref>{{EcOK}} p.165</ref>
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