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[[Truth]] is one of the most central, and yet most complex terms in [[Lacan]]'s discourse.  ==Truth and Psychoanalytic TreatmentPsychoanalysis==

[[Truth]] does not await, in some preformed [[state ]] of fullness, to be revealed to the [[analysand]] by the [[analyst]], but is rather constructed in the [[dialectic]]al movement of the [[treatment]] itself.<ref>{{Ec}} p.144</ref>

==Truth and Philosophy==

[[Lacan]] speaks [[about ]] "[[truth]]" in the [[singular]], not as a single [[universal]] [[truth]], but as [[particular]] [[truth]], unique to each [[subject]].<ref>{{S7}} p.24</ref>

==Truth and Language==[[Truth]] is only a meaningful [[concept ]] in the context of [[language]]:  <blockquote>"It is with the appearance of [[language]] that the [[dimension ]] of [[truth]] emerges."<ref>{{E}} p.172</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>"[[Truth]] hollows its way into the [[real]] thanks to the dimension of [[speech]]. There is neither [[true]] nor [[false]] prior to [[speech]]."<ref>{{S1}} p.228</ref></blockquote>

==Truth and [[Science]]==

It is not that [[Lacan]] denies that [[science]] aims to [[know ]] the [[truth]], but simply that [[science]] cannot [[claim ]] to monopolise [[truth]] as its exclusive property.<ref>{{Ec}} p.79</ref>

The concept of [[truth]] is essential for [[understanding ]] [[madness]], and modern [[science]] renders [[madness]] meaningless by ignoring the concept of [[truth]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.153-4</ref>

[[TruthDeception]] is intimately connected with and lies are not the opposite of [[deceptiontruth]]: on the contrary, since lies can often reveal they are inscribed in the [[truthtext]] about of [[desiretruth]] more eloquently than honest statements.

The [[Deceptionanalyst]] and lies are not 's [[role]] is to reveal the opposite of [[truth]]: on the contrary, they are inscribed in the text [[deception]] of the [[analysand]]'s [[truthspeech]].

The Although the [[analystanalysand]]'s role is may in effect be saying to reveal the [[truthanalyst]] inscribed in "I am deceiving you," the [[deceptionanalyst]] of says to the [[analysand]]'s [[speech]]. :

Although the [[analysand]] may in effect be saying to the [[analyst]] "I am deceiving you," the [[analyst]] says to the [[analysand]] <blockquote>"In this I am deceiving to you, what you are sending as [[message ]] is what I express to you, and in doing so you are telling the truth.<ref>{{S11}} p.139-40; {{S4}} p.107-8)</ref></blockquote>

==Truth versus false appearancesFalse Appearances==The false [[appearance]]s presented by the [[analysand]] are not merely obstacles that the [[analyst]] must expose and discard in [[order ]] to discover the [[truth]]; on the contrary, the [[analyst]] must take [[them ]] into account (see [[semblance]]).

==Truth, error Error and mistakesMistakes==[[Psychoanalysis]] has shown that the [[truth]] about [[desire]] is often revealed by mistakes ([[parapraxes]]).

The complex relations between [[truth]], mistakes, error and [[deception]] are evoked by [[Lacan]] in a typically elusive phrase when he describes "the [[structuration ]] of speech in [[search ]] of truth" as "error taking flight in deception and recaptured by mistake."<ref>{{S1}} p. 273</ref>

==Truth and Fiction==[[Lacan]] does not use the term "[[fiction]]" in the [[sense ]] of 'a falsehood', but in the sense of a [[scientific]] [[construct]].<ref>{{S7}} p.12</ref>

==Truth and the realThe Real==The opposition which [[Lacan]] draws between [[truth]] and the [[real]] dates back to his pre-war writings,<ref>{{Ec}} p.75</ref> and is taken up at various points; "We are used to the real. The truth we repress."<ref>{{E}} p.169</ref> However, [[Lacan]] also points out that [[truth]] is similar to the [[real]]; it is impossible to articulate the whole [[truth]], and "[p]recisely because of this [[impossibility]], [[truth]] aspires to the real."<ref>Lacan, 1973a: 83</ref>