What is it that you fantasize about?

World peace? Thought so.

Do you fantasize about international fame...?

Do you fantasize about winning a Pulitzer Prize...?

...or a Nobel Peace Prize?

An MTV Music Awards?

Do you fantasize about meeting some genius hunk?

Do you fantasize about meeting some genius hunk?

Ostensibly bad, but secret simmering, with noble passion...

...and willing to sleep on the web spot?

- I'll take two! - Kimberly will take two!

You get Lacan´s point:

Fantasies have to unrealistic. Because the moment, the second that you get what you seek...

Fantasies have to unrealistic. Because the moment, the second that you get what you seek...

...you don't, you can't wanted anymore.

In order to continue to exist,

Desire must have its objetcs perpetually absent. It´s no the "it" that you want, is the fantasy of "it".

Desire must have its objetcs perpetually absent. It´s no the "it" that you want, is the fantasy of "it".

Desire must have its objetcs perpetually absent. It´s no the "it" that you want, is the fantasy of "it".

So desire supports crazy fantasies.

So desire supports crazy fantasies.

This is what Pascal means when he says: "we are only trully happy when daydreaming about future happiness".

This is what Pascal means when he says: "we are only trully happy when daydreaming about future happiness".

Or why we say: "the hunt is sweeter than the kill". Or: "Be careful what you wish for".

Not because you will get it,...

...because you're doomed not to want once you do.

So the lesson of Lacan is:

Living by your wants will never make you happy.

What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals...

...and not measure your life by what you attained in terms of desires but...

and not measure your life by what you attained in terms of desires but...

...but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality...

...but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality...

...even self-sacrifice.

Because in the end,...

...the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives.

...is by valuing the lives of others.