We can’t actually get round our wanting, nor can we get round what is really available; these are what Camus calls the facts (and Freud calls the ‘reality principle’). And this discord, this supposed mismatch, is the origin of our experience of missing out, and the origin of engaged political action; as though we believe there is a world elsewhere of what Freud calls ‘complete satisfaction’, and that Camus might call a more just world.
