#redirect {{Top}}[[sujet]] supposé savoir{{Bottom}} ==Jacques Lacan=====Translation===The term [[Subject supposed to know|sujet supposé savoir]] can be translated as the "[[subject supposed to know]]" or as the "[[Subject Supposed supposed to Knowknow|supposed subject of knowledge]]". <!--==Self-Consciousness==The [[illusion]] of a [[self-consciousness]] which is [[transparent]] to itself in its [[act]] of [[knowledge|knowing]], constituted in the [[mirror stage]], is put into question by [[psychoanalysis]]. ==Symbolic Knowledge==[[Psychoanalysis]] demonstrates that [[knowledge]] (''[[savoir]]'') is not located in any [[particular]] [[subject]] but is, in fact, [[intersubjective]].<ref>{{L}} [[Seminar IX|Le Séminaire. Livre IX. L'identification, 1961-62]]'', unpublished. [[Seminar]] of 15 November 1961.</ref>-->===Transference===In 1964, [[Lacan]] defines [[transference]] as the [[attribution]] of [[knowledge]] to a [[subject]]. <blockquote>"As soon as the subject who is supposed to [[know]] [[exists]] somewhere there is transference."<ref>{{S11}} p. 232</ref></blockquote> It is the [[analysand]]'s ''supposition'' of a subject who [[knows]] that initiates the [[analytic]] [[process]] rather than the knowledge actually possessed by the [[analyst]]. The term [[subject supposed to know]] does not designate the analyst, but rather a function which the analyst may come to embody in the [[treatment]]. It is only when the analyst is perceived by the analysand to embody this function that the transference can be said to be established.<ref>{{S11}} p. 233</ref> ===Signification===When this occurs, what kind of knowledge is it that the analyst is presumed to possess? <blockquote>"He is supposed to know that from which no one can escape, as soon as he formulates it - quite simply, signification."<ref>{{S11}} p. 253</ref></blockquote> In [[other]] [[words]], the analyst is often [[thought]] to know the [[secret]] [[meaning]] of the analysand's [[word]]s, the [[signification]]s of [[speech]] of which even the [[speaker]] is unaware. This supposition alone (the supposition that the analyst is one who knows) causes otherwise insignificant details (chance gestures, ambiguous remarks) to acquire [[retroactively]] a special [[meaning]] for the [[patient]] who "supposes". ===Practice===It may happen that the [[patient]] supposes the [[analyst]] to be a subject who knows from the very first treatment, or even before, but it often takes some [[time]] for the transference to become established. In the latter [[case]], "when the subject enters the [[analysis]], he is far from giving the analyst this [[place]] of the [[subject supposed to know]]."<ref>{{S11}} p. 233</ref> The analysand may initially [[regard]] the analyst as a buffoon, or may withhold information from him in [[order]] to maintain his [[ignorance]].<ref>{{S11}} p. 137</ref> However, "even the [[psychoanalyst]] put in question is credited at some point with a certain infallibility."<ref>{{S11}} p.234</ref> Sooner or later some [[chance]] gesture of the analyst is taken by the analysand as a [[sign]] of some secret [[intention]], some hidden knowledge. At this point the analyst has come to embody the [[subject supposed to know]]; the transference is established. The [[end of analysis]] comes when the analysand de-supposes the analyst of knowledge, so that the analyst falls from the [[position]] of the [[subject supposed to know]]. ===Position of the Analyst===The term "[[subject supposed to know]]" also emphasizes the fact that it is a particular [[relationship]] to knowledge that constitutes the unique position of the analyst; the analyst is aware that there is a [[split]] between him and the knowledge attributed to him. In other words, the analyst must realize that he only occupies the position of one who is presumed (by the analysand) to know, without fooling himself that he really does possess the knowledge attributed to him. The analyst must realize that, of the knowledge attributed to him by the analysand, he knows [[nothing]].<ref>{{L}} "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Proposition du 9 octobre 1967 sur le psychanalyste de l'École]]," 1967, ''[[Scilicet]]'', no. 1 ([[1968]]) p. 20</ref> ===Training===However, the fact that it is a supposed knowledge that is the mainstay of the [[treatment|analytic process]], rather than the knowledge actually possessed by the analyst, does not mean that the analyst can therefore be [[content]] with [[knowing]] nothing; on the contrary, [[Lacan]] argues that [[analysts]] should emulate [[Freud]] in becoming experts in [[cultural]], [[literary]] and [[linguistic]] matters. <!--==Analysand==[[Lacan]] also remarks that, for the [[analyst]], the [[analysand]] is a [[subject supposed to know]]. When the [[analyst]] explains the [[fundamental rule]] of [[free association]] to the [[analysand]], he is effectively saying; "Come on, say anything, it will all be marvellous."<ref>{{S17}} p. 59</ref> In other words, the [[analyst]] tells the [[analysand]] to behave as if he knew what it was all [[about]], thereby instituting him as a [[subject supposed to know]].-->==See Also=={{See}}* [[Analysand]]* [[Analyst]]||* [[Consciousness]]* [[End of analysis]]||* [[Intersubjective]]* [[Knowledge]]||* [[Signification]]* [[Subject]]||* [[Transference]]* [[Treatment]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references /></div>[[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:New]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Subject]][[Category:People]]{{OK}} __NOTOC__
