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Welcome to [[No Subject]], an online encylopedia for information related to [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]].
 
Welcome to [[No Subject]], an online encylopedia for information related to [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]].
  
The website is organized as a wiki, which allows user editing -- adding and removing -- of content.
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The site 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.
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Thus, information is collaboratively written, continuously editted, 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.
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In addition, the site is organized as a hypertext database, with a non-linear navigational structure, in which each text is cross-referenced to a number of related texts.
  
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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In [[Lacan]]'s words, 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>
  
The primary concern of [[No Subject]] is to offer an accessible "way in" to information related to [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]].
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The aim of the site is to provide an accessible "way in."
 
 
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]].
 

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

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

Thus, information is collaboratively written, continuously editted, and gradually improved over time.

In addition, the site is organized as a hypertext database, with a non-linear navigational structure, in which each text is cross-referenced to a number of related texts.

In Lacan's words, 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."