In this paper we intend to consider the myth of the cave as a metaphor of cognition and draw a parallel with finding the truth of the subject in the psychoanalysis, to show a kind of «ascent» of the analysant.
     The starting point of our consideration becomes the thesis that Plato`s concept of the Good corresponds to the Lacanian concept of desire as that which drives knowledge and serves as its goal. The article also attempts to read the myth of the cave in terms of the topic of J. Lacan and to find correspondences with the Lacanian concepts of the Symbolic, Imaginary and Real.
     

psychoanalysis, truth, knowledge, Good, Imaginary, Symbolic, Real