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=====Jacques Lacan=====
Around 1958, [[Lacan]] develops an important distinction between three terms:
* [[need]],
[[Desire]], on the other hand, is a ''constant force'' which can never be [[satisfied]], the constant 'pressure' which underlies the [[drives]].
=====A Pre-Linguistic Need=====
This account presents in [[chronological]] terms what is in fact a question of [[structure]].
In truth, it is not the case that there first exists a [[subject]] of pure [[need]] which then attempts to articulate that [[need]] in [[language]], since the distinction between pure [[need]] and its articulation in [[demand]] only exists from the moment of its articulation, by which time it is impossible to determine what that pure [[need]] could have been.
The concept of a [[linguistics|pre-[[linguistic]] [[need]] is thus merely a hypothesis, and the [[subject]] of this pure [[need]] is a mythical [[subject]]; even the paradigmatic [[need]] of hunger never exists as a pure [[biological]] given, but is marked by the [[structure]] of [[desire]].
Nevertheless, this hypothesis is useful to [[Lacan]] for maintaining his theses about the radical divergence between [[human]] [[desire]] and all [[natural]] or [[biological]] categories.
