Modern culture blocks access to generosity and enjoyment, and there are increasing calls for bans or regulation on smoking, sex, humour or an ever-wider range of things that seem offensive to someone. At the same time, it turns out that many forget what to live for. The very failure to raise such a question serves as an important feature of our era. In his book, the Austrian philosopher and psychoanalyst Robert Pfaller tries to offer an answer to this question and finds out why this question has been forgotten today and what political consequences such oblivion leads to.