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==Jacques Lacan== ==Early Work==

It is in this [[seminar]] that [[Lacan]] discusses the call (''l'appel''), the baby's cry to the [[mother]].<ref>{{S4}} p.182</ref>

==Infant's Cry to its Mother==[[Lacan]] argues that this cry (''cri'') is not merely an [[instinctual]] [[signal]] but "is inserted in a synchronic world of cries organized in a symbolic system."<ref>{{S4}} p.188</ref>

In other words, the [[infant]]'s screams become organized in a [[linguistic]] [[structure]] long before the [[child ]] is capable of articulating recognizable words.

It The primary example of such a [[biological]] [[need]] is the symbolic nature of the infant's screams which forms thekernel of Lacan's concept of demandhunger, which Lacan introduces in 1958 the [[child]] articulates in a scream ([[demand]]) so that the context of his distinction between need, demand and desire[[mother]] will feed it.

Lacan argues that since ==Demand for the infant Other's Love==However, because the object]] which [[satisfies]] the [[child]]'s [[need]] is incapable of performingthe specific actions that would satisfy its biological needsprovided by another, it must articulate those needs in vocal form (demands) so that another (takes on the mother) will perform added significance of being a proof of the specific action instead[[Other]]'s [[love]].

The primary example of such Accordingly [[demand]] too acquires a biological double function: in addition to articualting a [[need is hunger]], which the child articulates in it also becomes a scream (Demand) so that the mother will feed it[[demand]] for [[love]].

However=Desire=It is this double function which gives birth to [[desire]], because since while the object [[need]]s which satisfies [[demand]] articulates may be [[satisfied]], the child's need craving for [[love]] is provided by anotherunconditional and insatiable, it takes on the added significance of being and hence persists as a proof of leftover even after the Other'[[need]]s lovehave been satisfied; this leftover constitutes [[desire]].

Accordingly demand too acquires a double function: in addition toarticualting a need, it also becomes a demand for love==Helplessness==[[Demand]] is thus intimately linked to the [[human]] [[subject]]'s initial [[helplessness]].

And just as By forcing the symbolic funciton [[analysand]] to express himself entirely in [[speech]], the [[treatment|psychoanalytic situation]] puts him back in the position of the object as a proof of love overshadows its real funciton as that which satisfies a need[[helpless]] [[infant]], so too the symbolic dimension of demand (as a demand for love) eclipses its real function (as an articulation of need)thus encouraging [[regression]].

It is this double function which gives birth to desire, since while <blockquote>"Through the mediation of the needs which demand articulates may be satisfied, the craving for love is unconditional and insatiablewhole past opens up right to early infancy. The subject has never done anything other than demand, and hence persists as a leftover even after the neeeds he could not have been satisfied; this leftover constitutes desiresurvived otherwise, an we just follow on from there."<ref>{{E}} p.254</ref></blockquote>

Demand ===Analyst==The question of how the [[analyst]] engages with these demands is thus intimately linked to the human subject's initial helplessnesscrucial.

By forcing Certainly the [[analyst]] does not attempt to gratify the [[analysand to express himself entirely in speech]]'s [[demand]]s, the psychoanalytic situation puts him back in the position but nor is it simply a question of the helpless infant, thus encouraging regression[[frustration|frustrating]] them.

<blockquote>Through ==Development==In 1961, [[Lacan]] rethinks the mediation various stages of the demand, the whole past opens up right to early infancy. The subject has never done anything other than libidinal organisation as forms of [[demand, he could not ahve survived otherwise, an we just follow on from there.<ref>{{E}} p]].254</ref></blockquote>

HoweverIn the [[development|anal stage]], while on the speech other hand, it is not a question of the analysand is itself already a [[subject]]'s [[demand (for a reply)]], this but the [[demand is underpinned by deeper demands ]] of the [[Other]] (to be cured, to be revealed to himself, to become an analystthe parent who disciplines the child in potty-training).<ref>{{ES8}} p.254238-46, 269</ref> The question of how the analyst engages with these deamdns is crucial. Certainly the analyst doe snot attempt togratify the analysand's demands, but nor is it simply a question of frustrating them.  ---------------------  In 1961, [[Lacan]] rethinks the various stages of libidinal organisation as forms of [[demand]].

The In both of these [[pregenital stage]]s the [[oral phasesatisfaction]] of [[developmentdemand]] is constituted by a eclipses [[demanddesire]] (made by ; only in the subject) [[genital stage]] does [[desire]] comes to be fed (which is a demand made by the subject)fully constituted.<ref>{{S8}} p.270</ref>

In the anal stage, on the other hand, it is not a question of the subject's demand, but the demand of the ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Analysand]]* [[Analyst]]* [[Biology]]* [[Development]]* [[Desire]]* [[Love]]* [[Need]]* [[Other (the parent who disciplines the child in potty-training).<ref>]]* [[Speech]]* [[Structure]]* [[Treatment]]{{S8Also}} p.238-46, 269</ref>

In both of these pregenital stages the satisfaction of demand eclipses desire; only in the genital stage does desire comes to be fully constituted.<ref>{{S8}} p.270==References==<references/ref>