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Demand is thus intimately linked to the human subject's initial helplessness.
By forcing the analysand to express himself entirely in speech, the psychoanalytic situation puts him back in the position of the helpless infant, thus encouraging regression.
<blockquote>Through the mediation of the demand, the whole past opens up right to early infancy. The subject has never done anything other than demand, he could not ahve survived otherwise, an we just follow on from there.<ref>{{E}} p.254</ref></blockquote>
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However, while the speech of the analysand is itself already a demand (for a reply), this demand is underpinned by deeper demands (to be cured, to be revealed to himself, to become an analyst).<ref>{{E}} p.254</ref>
The question of how the analyst engages with these deamdns is crucial.
Certainly the analyst doe snot attempt togratify the analysand's demands, but nor is it simply a question of frustrating them.
