"[[Need]]" ([[Fr]]. ''{{Top}}[[besoin]]''){{Bottom}}
==Need, Demand and Desire=Jacques Lacan=Around 1958, [[Lacan]] develops an important [[distinction ]] between [[three ]] [[terms]]:
* [[need]],
* '''[[demand]] ''' and * '''[[desire]]'''.
===Need and Instinct===In the context of this distinction, "[[need]]" comes close to what [[Freud]] referred to as "'''[[instinct]]'''" (''[[Instinkt]]''); that is, a purely '''''[[biological]]'' ''' [[concept ]] opposed to the realm of the '''[[drive]] ''' (''[[Trieb]]'').
===Need and 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.
However, in doing so, something else ==Desire==[[Need]] is introduced thus an ''intermittent tension'' which causes a split between arises for purely [[needorganic]] reasons and which is [[demanddischarged]]; this is entirely by the specific [[action]] corresponding to the fact that every [[demandparticular]] is not only an articulation of [[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]].
Now==A Pre-Linguistic Need==This account presents in [[chronological]] terms what is in fact a question of [[structure]]. In [[truth]], althought it is not the other [[case]] that there first [[exists]] a [[subject]] of pure [[need]] which then attempts to whom the articulate that [[demandneed]] is addressed (in the first instance[[language]], since the distinction between pure [[motherneed]]) can and may supply its articulation in [[demand]] only exists from the [[objectmoment]] of its articulation, by which satisfies [[time]] it is [[impossible]] to determine what that pure [[need]] could have been. The concept of a [[linguistics|pre-linguistic]] [[need]] is thus merely a hypothesis, and the infant's [[subject]] 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 divideduseful to [[Lacan]] for maintaining his theses [[about]] the radical divergence between [[human]] [[desire]] and all [[natural]] or [[biological]] [[categories]].
The result of this split between =See Also={{See}}* [[needBiology]] and * [[demandDevelopment]] is an insatiable leftover, which is ||* [[desireDemand]] itself.* [[Desire]]||* [[Drive]]* [[Instinct]]||* [[Love]]* [[Mother]]||* [[Nature]]{{Also}}
<!--==References=Need and Desire=<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div>-->[[NeedCategory:Psychoanalysis]] is thus an intermittent tension which arises for purely organic reasons and which is discharged entirely by the specific action corresponding to the particular [[needCategory:Jacques Lacan]] in question.[[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Science]][[DesireCategory:Concepts]], on the other hand, is a constand force which can never be satisfied, the constant 'pressure' which underlies the [[drivesCategory:Terms]].__NOTOC__
