The title of my journal "Desidero ergo sum" comes from Lacan, as does most of my vocabulary for talking about desire. Lacan argued that the Freudian revolution meant that desidero ergo sum was the Freudian revision of the Cartesian "cogito" and basically desire was a far more useful philosophical grounding point than thinking.

The "end of analysis" comes, in Lacanian terms, when one can identify one's desire, and peacefully say "I am that" and be fully responsible to that desire, never ceding it, no matter the consequence to self. Antigone, for that reason, is his ultimate literary heroine. I like to think that we don't always have to die for it.

I agree with Lacan that it is in desire that we find our being, our self, our definition, and our raison d'etre. Which is a cheesy cop-out because it shouldn't be that we find both our "being" and our "reason for being" in the same thing, I feel sure. But...that's as far as I've gotten.