Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Variations on the Standard Treatment," Part 2
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What Is Beyond Knowledge?
Lacan: Self knowledge is suspended in death and at the level of death because nobody knows what that's like. The analyst can know nothing about it, no more than anyone else, except that he is a being destined to die. This is true because for the subject, the reality of his own death is in no wise an object that can be imagined. And so it's the job of the analyst to help the ego encounter that.
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