le therapeute mis en position du sujet-suppose-savoir
English translation: the therapist driven into the role of "sujet suppose savoir" (the one who is supposed to know)
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the therapist driven into the role of "sujet suppose savoir" (the one who is supposed to know) Explanation: You could also use: "subject presumed to know" (sujet suppose savoir) This is a concept introduced by Lacan, and you can find many website about it. ("sujet suppose savoir" is often used in French even in English texts, with the translation in parenthesis. For instance, on the site below, you will find: "Oz is a nice instance of Lacan's "sujet suppose savoir," the one who is supposed to know--and of course he turns out (perhaps like Lacan's all-knowing psychoanalyst)" and again: " Wilbur, Oz, the Great Books, the Great Tradition. Greatness is an effect of decontextualization, of the decontextualizing of the sign--and of a fantasy of control, a fantasy of the sujet suppose savoir, of a powerful agency, divine or other. "If you build it, he will come." See also: "In this homonymous conjunction of a placid, reflective surface with dumb simplicity (both mute and obtuse), I would read an allusion to that "pure mirror of an unruffled surface" to which Lacan had likened the analyst-pedagogue as that bearer of transferential love he called the "subject-presumed-to-know" [sujet suppose savoir] (_Ecrits_ 109/15). The militant's love for the analyst-pedagogue, Lacan implies, depends upon the latter's functioning as the "objet a incarnate"--that is to say, upon his standing in for the Other as that space where "it [ca] is known," or in this case, where the truth of revolutionary desire is supposed to reside. It is not enough to insist that knowing the truth of such desire means knowing the lack that dooms it to a relentless flight after an impossible satisfaction. Lacan's point here is a corollary of this universal structure of desire: that the knowledge of a fully self-present and potentially consummate revolutionary moment, which the militant originally supposes of the Other, can only be a narcissistic illusion, an inverted reflection of the revolutionary's ego ideal in the placid mirror of the "subject-presumed-to-know."" http://www.usc.edu/dept/comp-lit/tympanum/1/starr1.html and: " The Ghost whose repeated injunctions to "Remember me!" serves as Hamlet’s Other, as "…what Lacan calls the sujet suppose savoir, the subject who is supposed to know. ‘As soon as the subject who is supposed to know exists somewhere," says Lacan, "there is transference"" http://www.columbia.edu/~fs10/garber.htm Reference: http://www.realbooks.com/chapterone/garber_m01.htm |
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