We are all driven by the desire for something. Freud's psychoanalytic concepts have often been portrayed as buried deep and of primordial nature, however his predecessor, Jacques Lacan, revised Freud's unconscious and notion of desire to be intrinsically sociocultural concepts. In this this paper, I first compare the two perspectives, then proceeds to suggest that a Lacanian lens may help us understand one of the deeper psychological mechanisms causing a decline in psychological well being today. I argue that sociological disintegration of all-encompassing meaning structures and predictable life-courses are making the search for what is lost, what we desire, vague in comparison to previous times. The importance of which comes to the forefront as the burden of creating guiding life courses are pushes downwards - are we not able to establish a clear timeline, a desire that drives us towards something beyond the present, the very Archimedean point that provides meaning and structure becomes unstable.