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Welcome to [[No Subject]], a free online resource for information related to the fields of [[psychoanalysis]], [[politics]], and [[philosophy]].
<blockquote>Writing is distinguished by a prevalence of the text in the sense that this factor of discourse will assume in this essay a factor that makes possible the kind of tightening up that I like in order to leave the reader no other way out than the way in, which I prefer to be difficult. In that sense, then, this will not be writing.</blockquote>
The website permits what [[French]] [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] called a "kind of tightening up" that "leave[s] the reader no other way out than the way in."<ref>Lacan, Jacques. [[The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud]]. 1977, p. 146/.493</ref>
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<blockquote>The short glossary below is not intended to provide adequate definitions of concepts. To do so would be quite alien to the nature of Lacan's work, which is peculiarly resistant to interpretation of a static, defining kind. Though rooted in Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan's concepts have evolved over the years to meet the requirements of a constant reformulation of psychoanalytic theory. They are best udnerstood, therefore, operationally, at work in a number of different contexts. However, some of the terms do call for comment, if only by way of introduction. [...] In certain cases, however, Lacan has preferred that a term be left entirely unglossed, on the grounds that any comment would prejudice its effective operation.</blockquote>
