Inaugural WoundsDesire, Jacques Lacan suggests, is a condition or expression of our wounded nature. But because such desire is also unconscious, it can be expressed only indirectly, for what we consciously desire is hardly ever what we really want. Desire makes itself known, but disguises its presenceappearing, for example, in unconscious but repetitive, and sometimes even self destructive, patterns of behavior. Informed by the voices of Freud and Lacan regarding the