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Drive (pulsion, Trieb)
Lacan reinstates a distinction, already clear in Freud, between the wholly psychical ''pulsion'' 9''Trieb'') and ''instinct'' (Instink''), with its 'biological' connotations.
As Lacan has poitned out, Freud's English translators blur this distinction by tranlsating both terms as 'instinct.'
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Freud's concept of the drive (Trieb) (pulsion) lies at the heart of his theory of sexuality. For Freud, the distinctive feature of human sexuality, as opposed to the sexual life of other animals, is that it is not regulated by any [[instinct]] (a concept which implies a relatively fixed and innate relationship to an object) but by the drives, which differ from instincts in that they are extremely variable, and develop in ways which are contingent on the life history of the subject.
