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As [[Jacques Lacan]] wrote, such "prevalence of the text ... makes possible the kind of tightening up [that] 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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Such a "prevalence of the text," in [[Lacan]]'s words, "makes possible the kind of tightening up [that] 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>
 
 
 
The aim of the site is to provide an accessible "way in."
 

Revision as of 02:37, 2 October 2006

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

It is a community-driven project to which users are invited to contribute in a collaborative manner.

The information is organized in the form of a hypertext, a cross-referential database with non-linear navigational structure.

As Jacques Lacan wrote, such "prevalence of the text ... makes possible the kind of tightening up [that] leaves the reader no other way out than the way in."[1]

The aim of the site is to provide an accessible "way in".