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Welcome to [[No Subject]], a free online resource containing information related to the interconnected fields of [[psychoanalysis]], [[politics]], and [[philosophy]]. 
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Information is presented in a manner that permits what [[French]] [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] called a "kind of tightening up" which "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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Welcome to [[No Subject]], a free online encyclopedia for information related to [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]].
  
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Whereas Lacan preferred his writings "to be difficult," the purpose of this website is to provide an accessible "way in," that is, as an authoritative and intelligible introduction to the texts of key thinkers.  
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This "prevalence of the [[text]] ... makes possible the kind of tightening up" that for [[Jacques 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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[[No Subject]] is a free encyclopedia of [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]] that was inaugurated during the summer of 2006 by [[Mark Olynciw]], and is the product of an active and growing community of users.
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Like most wikis, it is designed to be a collaborative effort and virtually every page of the [[archive]] can be edited by [[Special:Userlogin|our registered users]].
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Latest revision as of 15:08, 27 May 2019

The Borromean knot

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

It is written collaboratively by an active and growing community of users.

We have 4,366 pages about psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek and related ideas.

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

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

No Subject is concerned only with providing this "way in".

Please visit the Community Portal to get involved or the help page to learn more about the site. Feel free to ask questions in the forum.


No Subject is a free encyclopedia of Lacanian psychoanalysis that was inaugurated during the summer of 2006 by Mark Olynciw, and is the product of an active and growing community of users.

Like most wikis, it is designed to be a collaborative effort and virtually every page of the archive can be edited by our registered users.

As of December 2006, there were 2,602 articles within the No Subject wiki.

For helpful information on how to get involved, consult the community portal.

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