‘What makes my life worth living for?’ ‘What are the pleasures without which I cannot live?’ It is among the contentions of this book that our unlived lives – the lives we live in fantasy, the wished-for lives – are often more important to us than our so-called lived lives, and that we can’t (in both senses) imagine ourselves without them; that they are an essential part of the ways in which we answer Freud’s questions. And it is not incidental to this that in our unlived lives we are rather more transgressive than we tend to be in our lived lives.
