ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the subject of science is the same subject entering analysis, that is: a subject who apparently wants to know, but whose hidden aim is to bridge its inner gap, to delete the / which bars its supposedly inner self. On the one hand, S. Lacan elaborates the determinism he finds in the human psyche, which leads to a deterministic psychoanalytic practice as well; on the other hand, he confronts us with causality beyond determinism, entailing a less optimistic appraisal of psychoanalytic practice. The meeting ground between psychoanalysis and science is both the problem of causality and the position of the subject. Lacan’s theory has the advantage of demonstrating the inner relationship between these two. Lacan think of four different ways of coping with the unbearable lightness of being, of which science and psychoanalysis are two; the other two being religion and magic.
