Having a dream?

We always walk away from our dreams. either because we are afraid to fail, and sometomes afraid to succeed.

Fantacies

Think...

I want you to reach back into those minds and tell me, tell us all...
What is it that you fantasize about? World peace? Do you fantasize about international fame? Do you fantasize about winning a Pulitzer Prize? Or a Nobel Peace Prize? An MTV Music Award? Do you fantasize about meeting some genius hunk, ostensibly bad... but secretly simmering with noble passion... and willing to sleep on the wet spot?

You get Lacan's point.
Fantasies have to be unrealistic, because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore. In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It's not the "it" that you want. It's the fantasy of"it". So, desire supports crazy fantasies.

Sorry, this is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy... when daydreaming about future happiness.
It came today, or why we say...
the hunt is sweeter than the kill.
Or be careful what you wish for, not because you'll get it, but because you're doomed not to want it 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 to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires. But those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice.
[The Life of David Gale]