The psychoanalytic subject between the contingent and the necessary. This paper examines Milner's hypothesis in which the subject of the psychoanalytic experience, as a correlate of modern science, is a correlate of the contingency. We have investigated if this hypothesis is sustainable and if it is well founded on the Lacanian thinking. We have discussed the categories of the contingent and the necessary, relating them to the unconscious, concluding that a psychoanalysis of the contingent is not viable, because this dimension must be considered with reference to the necessary.
Modern science; subject of science; psychoanalytic subject; chain of signifiers; jouissance; the contingent; the necessary