The paper argues that the description and the application of the psychoanalytical method in a research must be coherent with clinical formalization. Such formalization has revealed that significant articulations can be logically described in terms of the necessary modality (interpretation). On the other hand, the amount of libidinal investment they can attract is impossible to calculate and is better described as contingent (act). This subject splitting constitutes the obstacle to the full description of the method in academic patterns but, at the same time, constitutes the psychoanalytical field itself.
subject; instinct; literalization; contingence