Unfortunately I've lost Yoshie's original post on psychoanalysis leaving little room for contingency, but...in agreement with her, the British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips in his book *On Flirtation* points out that Freud left very little room for the contingency that characterizes most human lives. He argues, for example, that that's why Freud paid so little attention to flirtation -- an odd omission since on a daily basis, most of us probably spend more time engaged in that practice than on any other sexual activity -- flirtation is all about the subject's relationship to contingency and accident. Since Phillips is a psychoanalyst he analyzes why all this might have made SF so uneasy. Dunno if I agree completely, but great fun.
Liza