"To desir life is not simply to be alive. It is to let ourselves be driven by the vital momentum that leads us to create, to love, to overcome us. It is to cultivate the power of desire that is the driving force of our lives. Yet, in everyday life, we feel many limitations - 'I am not capable', 'It is too risky', 'It is not for you' - which inhibit us. We are often also trapped in the impulses of our primary brain, the striatum, and consumerist propaganda that push us to acquire ever more. How to cultivate the strength of desire without falling into the trap of permanent dissatisfaction or social mimicism? How to develop our vital power without self-censorship? How to learn to direct our desires towards things, activities or people that make us grow and bring us into joy? From Plato to René Girard, passing through Buddha, Aristotle, Epicury, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Jung or Bergson, Frédéric Lenoir revisits the great thinkers of desire, all of the present, and propose us a book that is not only lucid to the vibious.