<p>This essay discusses activist burnout through a Lacanian perspective, focusing on the struggle to heal burnout experienced by activists. It argues that activists find it difficult to heal burnout because of their attachment to the practices that induce burnout, imbued with unconscious desires and enjoyment that help shape their way of life. To illustrate, this essay discusses the fantasy of self-sacrifice and the fantasy of constant action. Drawing on the concepts of traversing the fantasy and drive, the struggle to heal burnout can potentially lead the subject to embrace the satisfaction of struggling to create social change, hence, drive.</p>