The Western capitalist world has produced a new form of slavery: the desireless individual, condemned to a life of enjoyment crushed by compulsive and perpetually unsatisfied consumption. In our time, desire risks extinction. Yet, when we say "desire," what kind of experience do we evoke? In this book, Massimo Recalcati investigates a key theme in Lacan's doctrine: desire and its enigmas. Like a gallery of portraits, he represents the different faces of human desire: envious desire, desire for recognition, desire for nothing, anxious desire, desire for enjoyment, desire for another place, sexual desire, desire for love, desire for death, desire for the analyst... The result is a simple and compelling synthesis that can be considered an effective and readable introduction to Lacan's thought.