As soon as the one supposed to know [sujet supposé savoir] exists somewhere––there is transference. Now, it is quite certain, as everyone knows, that no psychoanalyst can claim to represent, in however slight a way, a corpus of absolute knowledge. That is why, in a sense, it can be said that if there is someone to whom one can apply there can be only one such person. This one was Freud, while he was alive. He was not only the one supposed to know. He did know, and he gave us this knowledge in terms that may be said to be indestructible, in as much as, since they were first communicated, they support an interrogation which to the present day has never been exhausted. J. Lacan, Seminar XI
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