Happiness is the happiness of dreaming about things we do not really want

 In the strict Lacanian sense of the term, one should thus posit that “happiness”relies on the subject’s inability or unreadiness fully to confront the consequences of its desire: the price of happiness is that the subject remains stuck in the inconsistency of its desire.In ourd aily lives,we (pretend to) desire things that we do not really desire, so that,ultimately,the worst thing that can happen is for us to get what we “officially”desire.

Happiness is thus inherently hypocritical:it is the happiness of dreaming about things we do not really want