Many think wealth, love and fame bring happiness in life. But Proust warned that while desire makes life blossom, possession makes it wither. Is there more value in desire and aspiration than in arrival? And if so should we seek better dreams and fantasies to enrich our lives?

Radical sociologist Steve Fuller, erotic capital theorist Catherine Hakim, and psychiatrist and Chair of the Mental Health Foundation Dinesh Bhugra seek answers.

From the Institute of Art and Ideas collection.