This paper is aimed at retracing an itinerary. Starting from the “mutual generation of the psychic and language apparatus” (A. Green) it reaches, through Freud’s thought and judgement models, the very principles of what, causing the psyche, causes the subject and its splitting lines. From that point, it goes through some problems of the speech and object reality in the treatment as to provide the debate between psychoanalysis and contemporary epistemology with some ammunition.
Then, after showing that the causality involved in the intimacy of a subject is not a “starting point” given for an irreducible programming of the lived meaning, it tries to pinpoint that the psychoanalytic rationality goes far beyond what we are prone to admit.