Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law (1979) [pdf]

Lacan's foremost expositor, Slavoj Zizek, argues that humans have an inherent need to displace responsibility for their actions on some manifestation of the 'real' so ;find themselves' in a particular situation rather than regard themselves as authors of it, perhaps so as to preserve the (imagined) field of intersubjective social relations. I came across this argument in Looking Awry though I'm sure he's developed it elsewhere as well.