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It's visual network of textual patterns is informed by Sigmund Freud's statement that, `the interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activity in the mind' \u0026amp; Lacan's that, `the unconscious `is structured like a language'.     While the bibliograph retains some of the same structural features of earlier works such a double-page wordscape, its curved and spiralling textual patterns with equalised lines of uniform length take a coded form informed by Freud's theoretical concepts of condensation and displacement.     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