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Welcome to [[No Subject]], a free online resource for information related to the fields of [[psychoanalysis]], [[philosophy]] and [[politics]].
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==Community==
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Welcome to [[No Subject]], an online encylopedia for information related to [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]].
  
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[[No Subject]] is intended as a ''community-driven'' website, where visitors come -- not only to find information / acquire knowledge -- but also to share their own, in a collaborative manner.
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==Theory and Practice==
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Such a "prevalence of the text" ... "makes possible the kind of tightening up" that, for [[Lacan]], "leaves the reader no other way out than the way in."<ref>{{L}} [[The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud]]. 1977, p. 146</ref>
  
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The short glossary below is not intended to provide adequate definitions of concepts.  
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The primary concern of [[No Subject]] is to offer an accessible "way in" to information related to [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]].
  
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Lacan's work is peculiarly resistant to interpretation of a static, defining kind.
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Though rooted in Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan's concepts have evolved over the years to meet the requirements of a constant reformulation of psychoanalytic theory.
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=="No Other Way Out Than the Way In"==
 
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The website, organized in the form of a hypertext -- distinguished by a prevalence of the text in the sense that this factor of discourse will assume ... a factor that -- "makes possible the kind of tightening up ... in order to leave 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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==Introduction==
 
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Revision as of 14:29, 18 August 2006

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The Borromean knot

Welcome to No Subject, an online encylopedia for information related to Lacanian psychoanalysis.

The website is organized as a wiki, which allows user editing -- adding and removing -- of content.

The articules are collaboratively written, editted continuously, and gradually improved over time.

No Subject is a kind of hypertext database, with a non-linear navigational structure, in which each article is cross-referenced to a number of related articles.

Such a "prevalence of the text" ... "makes possible the kind of tightening up" that, for Lacan, "leaves the reader no other way out than the way in."[1]

The primary concern of No Subject is to offer an accessible "way in" to information related to Lacanian psychoanalysis.

See the help pages to learn how to start and the community portal for ways you can help.

Feel free to ask questions or experiment in the sandbox.

  1. ↑ Lacan, Jacques. The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud. 1977, p. 146
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