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==Lack and Desire==
The term "[[lack]]" is always related, in [[Lacan]]'s teaching, to [[desire]].
It is a [[lack]] which causes [[desire]] to arise.<ref>{{S8}} p.139</ref>
However, the precise nature of what is [[lack]]ing varies over the course of [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]].
==Lack of Being==
When the term first appears, in 1955, [[lack]] designates first and foremost a [[lack|lack of being]].
What is [[desire]]d is [[being]] itself.
<blockquote>Desire is a relation of being to lack. The lack is the lack of being properly speaking. It isn't the lack of this or that, but lack of being whereby the being exists."<ref>{{S2}} p.223</ref></blockquote>
[[Lacan]] returns to this theme in 1958, when he argues that [[desire]] is the [[metonymy]] of the [[lack|lack of being]] (''[[lack|manque à être]]'').<ref>{{E}} p.259; translated by Sheridan as "want-to-be"</ref>
The [[subject]]'s [[lack|lack of being]] is "the heart of the analytic experience" and "the very field in which the neurotic's passion is deployed.<ref>{{E}} p.251</ref>
[[Lacan]] contrasts the [[lack|lack of being]], which relates to [[desire]], with the [[lack|lack of having]] (''[[lack|manque à avoir]]''), which relates to [[demand]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.730</ref>
==Lack of an Object==
In 1956, [[lack]] comes to designate the [[lack]] of an [[object]].
[[Lacan]] distinguishes between three kinds of [[lack]], according to the nature of the [[object]] which is [[lack]]ing, as shown in the figure below.<ref>{{S4}} p.269</ref>
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