ABSTRACT
Knowledge was searched for and explored by philosophers long before Plato and Aristotle, which is why they were called pre-Socratics. The analyst's knowledge starts there as an unknowledge and as the analyst's desire that supports the analysand's lalangue. Since the analyst does not know what ignorance presses the subject in analysis in a particular direction, he, the analyst, supports the subject's relation with the refusal of knowledge—whether the latter is of the order of impossibility or lack or prohibition—because it implicates the subject of the unconscious. Paranoia has as a foundation an imaginary structure where knowledge as cognition serves to produce jouissance through the imaginary relations of the ego and its counterpart. In the times of Antiquity, ignorance came to be understood as the opposite of knowledge. For Jacques Lacan the loop of ignorance and of knowledge were intertwined, which allowed him to construct discourse as a social bond that circumscribes the impossibility of writing the sexual relation.
