Neil, in his podcast on negativity, says that the desire to have nothing bothering you, that is, the desire to simply be “useless”, is an expression of the [[death drive]]. [[Freud]] believed that this desire is repressed and comes out in various self-destructive habits, such as drinking, doing drugs, etc. For Freud, life introduces anxiety and struggle.
And on this, the [[Buddha]] and [[Freud]] agree: life is struggle.
Conversely, we also have a desire to work towards what the best version of ourselves is (by removing [[lack]]), and that struggle creates [[jouissance]].