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[[Lacan]] develops an important distinction between three terms: [[need]], [[demand]] and [[desire]].
[[Desire]], on the other hand, is a constant force which can never be satisfied, the constant 'pressure' which underlies the [[drive]]s.
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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.
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