"There is knowledge within the real. Although it is not the analyst, but the scientist who owes to provide shelter to this knowledge.
The analyst provides shelter to another knowledge, another position, a knowledge that however must take into account the knowledge within the real. The scientist produces knowledge pretending to be its subject. A necessary condition but not sufficient. If it does not seduce the master by hiding from him that its annihilation lies there, this knowledge will remain buried as it remained for twenty centuries where the scientist considered himself a subject but only of a more or less eloquent discourse."

Jacques Lacan, Note to the Italians

"The idea that psychoanalysis plays the game with science as a partner is not based simply on a scientific passion of Lacan but is based on the fact that today the position of science is decisive within culture. The masters who present themselves are dubious, they no longer regulate anything at all, since the order is the scientific order. The masters only have the tendency to pretend that they are the organizers of the order. [...] Science for Lacan is related to a positive axiom: "there is knowledge within the real". This axiom is opposed to the negative axiom "there is no sexual relationship between the sexes" that Lacan presents in this case as a theorem proven by psychoanalysis. In this game of psychoanalysis and science, these two axioms determine the advantages of each."

Jacques-Alain Miller, The Passage from Psychoanalysis to Science