8 Let us specify immediately, for more clarity: does without any reference to the author almost totally, does without reference to the author apparently, as we will see further on.
On several occasions the Ecrits denounce the "resistance" the analyst betrays via the psychobiographical reference to the writer. While subscribing to this suspicion, one can extend it to a certain formalist neutralization of the effects of the signature. Which supposes the opening of another (theoretical and more than theoretical) space for the elaboration of these questions. The very opening in which we are engaged here.