Iran sends inconsistent messages to the world. Vehement factionalism and widespread disagreement in nearly everything from religion and politics to lifestyle and sexuality are evident inside the country. Drawing from the Freudian concept of the economics of libido as well as from Lacanian discourses, this article analyzes the historical experience of the decades following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. I focus on how the enforcement of moral puritanism and the symbolic decline of father figures have resulted in an imbalance of the economics of libido among Iranian subjects, as well as the absence of a master signifier capable of representing the discourse of the Master in a way that libidinal resources can be integrated into Iranian culture. Consequentially, a subversive discourse of the hysteric with an insatiable desire transformed into eternal, unanswerable questions has arisen, and this discourse predominates in the relationship between various factions in the country.