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[[Lacan]]'s term, ''[[désir]]'', is the term used in the [[French ]] translations of [[Freud ]] to translate [[Freud]]'s term ''[[Wunsch]]'', which is translated as '"[[wish' ]]" by Strachey in the ''[[Standard Edition]]''.
Hence English translators of [[Lacan]] are faced with a dilemma; should they translate ''[[désir]]'' by '"[[wish']]", which is closer to [[Freud]]'s ''[[Wunsch]]'', or should they translate it as "[[desire]]", which is closer to the [[French]] term, but which lacks the allusion to [[Freud]]?
All of [[Lacan]]'s [[English]] translators have opted for the latter, since the [[English]] term "[[desire]]" conveys, like the [[French]] term, the implication of a continuous force, which is essential to [[Lacan]]'s concept.
The [[English]] term also carries with it the same allusions to [[Hegel]]'s ''[[Begierde ]]'' as are carried by the [[French]] term, and thus retains the philosophical nuances which are so essential to [[Lacan]]'s concept of ''[[désir]]'' and which make it "a category far wider and more abstract than any employed by [[Freud]] himself."<ref>Macey, 1995: 80</ref>
==Human Desire==
