We tend to consider freedom as the positive ability to fulfill our desires. This means we can identify more fully with the object of our desire, and over time, we consider ourselves (our identity) to be those desiring actions, those drives.
According to Lacan or Slavoj Zizek, we are "desiring subjects" captured before inception with ideology. So, our desires are programmatic and not unique. They may be "individual" or "subjectively felt." Still, they are not authentic, meaning we are manufactured to feel individually free in our pursuits, but that very pursuit is your training in action.
So, what if freedom is not the fulfillment of your desire but a negation of desire? By dissolving desire, like a Buddhist, you create the potential to encounter your authentic self (if that exists), not tarnished with pre-programmed base desires or complex transference.