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In Logique du pire, Clément Rosset analyzes the concept of causality without the influence of any transcendental law, as it appears in the actual and immanent process of things. Rosset sees this concept of immanent causality in Freud’s psychoanalysis, but not at all in the Lacanian concept of real. Such causation is akin to chance, indicating that things exist and simply exist, for no reason – this is what the tragic is. Throughout the history of philosophy, the philosopher who most radically understood the notion of chance is paradoxically the one who defined it as absolute necessity: Spinoza, “a tragic thinker par excellence”. A number of epistemic and therapeutic implications stem from this understanding.