The Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN) was – despite its name – often reproached for not being enough or not at all “scientific”. Sapir and his followers tried to demonstrate its scientific validity by relying mainly on statistics and psychology. This article proposes a different approach: in the first step epistemologically rethink SCAN through the humanistic science of linguistics as founded by de Saussure and further developed by Jakobson, Derrida and others – while in the second step enhance it with theoretical psychoanalysis in the variant of Ljubljana’s Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis. All the theoretical work of the first part of this article will be then tested on a case study taken from Slovenian contemporary murder investigations, the so-called “Radan case”.