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This paper investigates the incidence of unpredictability and surprise in clinical work with a focus on Michel de M’Uzan’s essays. The common thread of this clinical reflection is to restore their much more psychic than circumstantial dimension to unpredictability and surprise and promote the economical, on the side of Eros, as the surest protective shield. Looking at the wandering of the I between the Ego and the non-Ego for surprise, the back and forth movement between what is “already no more” and “not yet” for unpredictability, Michel de M’Uzan undoubtedly promises the category of becoming: “May what was mere potential become really present, and freedom that was only virtual assert itself, in other words that what never existed should become a fact.”