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The concept of [[desire]] is the central concern of [[psychoanalytic theory]].
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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.
[[Unconscious]] [[desire]] is entirely [[sexuality|sexual]]:
<blockquote>"The motives of the unconscious are limited . . . to sexual desire . . . The other great generic desire, that of hunger, is not represented."<ref>{{E}} p.142</ref></blockquote>
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