I should concede that my views of Lacan were heavily shaped by Zizek who kind of leans too heavily on him in hindsight. Lacan is still one of my favorite voices of thought because he doesn't allow any ambiguity, everything is nicely buttoned up within the self such that the outside reality is merely consequence. This makes it easy to frame any idea.

But in terms of my own personal philosophy, I find myself identifying with Schopenhauer, a philosopher I had never heard of in my life before GPT