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==Need, Demand and Desire===Jacques Lacan====Around 1958, [[Jacques Lacan]] develops an important distinction between three terms:
* [[need]],
* '''[[demand]] ''' and * '''[[desire]]'''.
=====Need=====In the context of this distinction, "[[need]]" comes close to what [[Sigmund Freud]] referred to as "'''[[instinct]]'''" (''[[Instinkt]]''); that is, a purely '''''[[biological]]''''' concept opposed to the realm of the '''[[drive]] ''' (''[[Trieb]]'').
=====Demand=====[[Lacan]] bases this distinction on the fact that in order to [[desire|satisfy ]] his [[needs]] the [[infant]] must articulate them in '''[[language]]'''; in other words, the [[infant]] must articulate his [[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.
=====Desire=====[[Need]] is thus an ''intermittent tension '' which arises for purely [[organic]] reasons and which is [[discharged]] entirely by the specific [[action]] corresponding to the particular [[need]] in question.
[[Desire]], on the other hand, is a ''constant force '' which can never be [[satisfied]], the constant 'pressure' which underlies the [[drives]].
==A Pre-Linguistic Need==
