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No Subject is a free online encyclopedia and resource for information related to psychoanalysis, politics, and philosophy. This information is presented here in a manner that permits what French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan called a "kind of tightening up" that "leave[s] the reader no other way out than the way in." Whereas Lacan preferred his writings "to be difficult," this website is intended to provide such a "way in," that is, by serving as an authoritative and intelligible guide to the original texts of key thinkers in the fields of psychoanalysis, politics, and philosophy, enabling visitors to follow their own interests and develop their own projets. The articles on No Subject are cross-referenced, with links to relevant articles with further in-depth information, if you need it, relevant external web sites and pages, reference material, and organized categories of knowledge which you can search and traverse in a loose hierarchy for more information.

No Subject is a community-driven website, where visitors come acquire knowledge as well as contribute their own. Visitors are invited to contribute to the website by adding new articles and improving the information presented in those articles (simply by clicking the edit this page link), contributing knowledge as you see fit in a collaborative way. Anyone can contribute to NoSubject by clicking on the Edit this page tab in an article. Visitors are invited to leave feedback and other comments about an article in the discussion page for that article. Visitors should refer to the tutorial before beginning to contribute. Anyone who visits the site can edit it, and this fact has encouraged contribution of a tremendous amount of content. You are invited to be bold and edit the pages yourself to add information or correct mistakes if you are knowledgable and able to do so.

No Subject is an ongoing work to which anybody can contribute, and as such, newer articles may still contain significant misinformation. The information hosted on No Subject is never complete. The articles are never complete, but are continually edited and improved over time. It is after a long process of discussion, debate and argument, that they gradually take on a consensus form.

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