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297between its aim and its goal? The goal is the final destination, while the aim is what weintend to do, i.e., the way itself. Lacan’s point is that the real purpose of the drive is not itsgoal (full satisfaction) but its aim: the drive's ultimate aim is simply to reproduce itself asdrive, to return to its circular path, to continue its path to and from the goal. The realsource of enjoyment is the repetitive movement of this closed circuit. Therein consists theparadox of Sisyphus: once he reaches his goal, he experiences the fact that the real aim ofhis activity is the way itself, the alternation of ascent and descent. (4)This strategy of looking awry at psychoanalysis and deconstruction, and at literature and life ingeneral, would allow us to see at an angle the real logics of the Thing. Only through thisanamorphic, distorted perspective might we understand the twisted career of the missedencounter.