| Sumario: | This essay tackles the following question: what can there be in common between Heidegger's question of the meaning of being and Lacan's focus on the subject, between the question of the ontological difference and that of psychoanalysis, between phenomenological ontology and structuralist psychoanalysis? Despite their apparently massive differences, I suggest that both thinkers share a common concern for rethinking the being of subjectivity, which I will suggest they both approach as an event. I attempt to appraise the scope – advances and limits – of Lacan's theory of the subject on the basis of Heidegger's questioning, and, conversely, wonder how Lacan can help us appropriate some of Heidegger's more radical formulations on the being of subjectivity. My hope is that through this confrontation of Lacan's self-proclaimed "subversion" of the subject with Heidegger's questioning of the being of subjectivity, some light will be shed on the eventful character of the subject.
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