Although the term "[[demand]]" only begins to figure prominently in [[Lacan]]'s work from 1958 on, related themes are already present in [[Seminar IV|the 1956-7 seminar]].
Although It is in this [[seminar]] that [[Lacan]] discusses the call (''l'appel''), the baby's cry to the term "[[demandmother]]" only begins to figure prominently in .<ref>{{S4}} p.182</ref> [[Lacan]]argues that this cry ('s work from 1958 on, related themes are already present in 'cri'') is not merely an [[instinctual]] [[Seminar IV|the 1956-7 seminarsignal]]but "is inserted in a synchronic world of cries organized in a symbolic system.<ref>{{S4}} p.188</ref>
