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This paper analyzes the subject’s relations to the causal order understood through certain types of discourse and theories on origin which, for lack of a “sufficient reason” take recourse to culpability for the purpose of identification and signification. This work is part of a wider reflection on the function of masochism in the processes of subjectivation and identification. The hypotheses, propositions, and arguments that are put forward here raise more questions than they answer. However they offer an outline of possible ways of approaching an analysis of the subject’s relations to the causal order with its conscious and unconscious implications, its acceptable cultural and epistemological forms, as well as its aberrations.