ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we show how Lacan collapses the distinction between knowledge and savoir by first recognizing the knowledge in science – the knowledge of Copernicus and Newton – and then he slips to “that knowledge (savoir), as far as it resides in the shelter of llanguage”. Knowledge is ‘connaissance’. Then he is talking about llangauge and unconscious knowledge or savoir as if it were the same thing as the knowledge in science. Knowledge and science are objective, while the savoir of llanguage is subjective and singular. It appears in each person in a singular way as opposed to a knowledge that is kind of objective and social, and everybody has the same relationship to it. This is further exemplified as viewed through Lacan’s understanding of the Four Discourses.
