"we don't really want what we think we desire"

"You know, happiness is for me a very conformist category.  It doesn't enter the frame.  You have a serious ideological deviation at the very beginning of a famous proclamation of independence -- you know, pursuit of happiness.  If there is a point in psychoanalysis, it is that people do not really want or desire happiness, and I think it’s good that it is like that."

Slavoj Žižek explique pourquoi il vaut mieux être intéressant que heureux
Slavoj Žižek erklärt mit rollendem R, warum man lieber interessant als glücklich sein sollte