ABSTRACT
Jacques Lacan produced a matheme for it, written in accordance with the algorithm signifier/signified. The subject supposed to knowledge, a knowledge itself supposed from the signifiers of the unconscious, is written at the place of the signified of the analytic address. The term, introduced in the seminar The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, should be paired with another expression from the same period, the "position of the unconscious", which already shows that it is not enough to suppose the unconscious to position it. Lacan insisted, following S. Freud, that free association is the knowledge supposed to the analysand subject and not to the analyst. The analysand presents himself beneath a signifier that Lacan calls the signifier of the transference. Analytic discourse, as Lacan formulates it, puts knowledge in the place of truth. In analytic experience, unconscious knowledge without a subject begins where the supposition of the subject stops. The fallacy of the supposition of a subject to knowledge is revealed.
