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==Jacques Lacan== ==Early Work==
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]].
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.
==Need, Demand and Desire==
It is the [[symbolic|symbolic nature]] of the infant's screams which forms the kernel of [[Lacan]]'s concept of [[demand]], which Lacan introduces in 1958 in the context of his distinction between [[need]], [[demand]] and [[desire]].
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