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=Jacques Lacan=Around 1958, [[Lacan]] develops an important [[distinction ]] between [[three ]] [[terms]]: * [[need]], * '''[[demand]] ''' and * '''[[desire]]'''.

==Need==In the context of this distinction, '"[[need' ]]" comes close to what [[Freud]] referred to as "'''[[instinct]] '''" (''[[Instinkt]]''); that is, a purely '''''[[biology|biological]] ''''' [[concept ]] opposed to the realm of the '''[[drive]] ''' (''[[Trieb]]'').

The ==Demand==[[childLacan]], bases this distinction on the fact that in [[order ]] to [[desire|satisfy ]] his or her [[needneeds]] the [[infant]]s, must articulate his or her [[needthem]]s in '''[[language]]'''; in other [[words]], the [[childinfant]] must articulate his or her [[needs]] in a "'''[[demand]]'''". However, in doing so, something else is introduced which causes a '''[[split]]''' between [[need]] and '''[[demand]]'''; this is the fact that every '''[[demand]]''' is not only an articulation of [[need]]but also an (unconditional) '''[[demand]]''' for '''[[love]]'''. Now, although the [[other]] to whom the [[demand]] is addressed (in the first [[instance]], the [[mother]]) can and may supply the [[object]] which [[satisfies]] the [[infant]]'s [[need]], she is never in a [[position]] to answer the [[demand]] for [[love]] unconditionally, because she too is [[division|divided]]. The result of this '''[[split]]''' between [[need]] and '''[[demand]]''' is an [[insatiable]] leftover, which is '''[[desire]]''' itself.

However, every ==Desire==[[demandNeed]] is not only thus an articulation of ''intermittent tension'' which arises for purely [[organic]] reasons and which is [[discharged]] entirely by the specific [[action]] corresponding to the [[particular]] [[need]] but also an (unconditional) in question. [[Desire]], on the other hand, is a ''constant force'' which can never be [[demandsatisfied]] for , the constant 'pressure' which underlies the [[lovedrives]].

The ==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 [[otherneed]] which then attempts to whom the articulate that [[need]] in [[demandlanguage]] is addressed (, since the distinction between pure [[motherneed]]) can and may supply its articulation in [[demand]] only exists from the [[objectmoment]] of its articulation, by which [[satisfactiontime]] it is [[impossible]] to determine what that pure [[need]] could have been. The concept of a [[linguistics|satisfiespre-linguistic]] [[need]] is thus merely a hypothesis, and the [[childsubject]]'s of this pure [[need]], she is a [[mythical]] [[subject]]; even the paradigmatic [[need]] of hunger never in exists as a position to answer pure [[biological]] given, but is marked by the [[demandstructure]] for of [[lovedesire]] unconditionally. Nevertheless, because she too this hypothesis is useful to [[division|dividedLacan]] for maintaining his theses [[about]] the radical divergence between [[human]] [[desire]] and all [[natural]] or [[biological]] [[categories]].

The result of this [[split]] between [[need]] and [[demand]] is an insatiable leftover, which is [[desire]] itself.=See Also={{See}}* [[Need]] is thus an intermittent tension which arises for purely organic reasons and which is discharged entirely by the specific action corresponding ot the particular [[needBiology]] in question.* [[DesireDevelopment]], on the other hand, is a constant force which can never be satisfied, the constant 'pressure' which underlies the [[drive]]s.    --It is not the case that there first exists a subject of pur eneed 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 ot determine what that pure need could have been.The concept of a pre-linguistic need is thus merely a hypothesis, and the subject of this pure need is a mythicla subject. ==See Also==||