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[[Lacan]] argues that this cry (''cri'') is not merely an begins to use the term "[[instinctual]demand] [[signal]] but "is inserted in a synchronic world of cries organized in a symbolic system.<ref>{{S4}} p1958.188</ref>
In the [[seminar]] of 1956-7, [[Lacan]] argues that the '''cry''' of the '''[[helplessness|human infant]]''' -- its '''call''' (''l'appel'') to the '''[[mother]]''' -- is not merely an [[instinct|instinctual signal]] but is "inserted in a [[synchronic]] [[world]] of cries organized in a symbolic [[system]]."<ref>{{S4}} p. 182, 188</ref>
==Need, Demand and Desire==It is the [[symbolic|symbolic nature ]] of the infant's screams which forms thekernel the kernel of [[Lacan]]'s [[concept ]] of [[demand]], which Lacan introduces in 1958 in the context of his [[distinction ]] between [[need]], [[demand ]] and [[desire]].
==Articulation of Need==Lacan argues that since the [[infant ]] is incapable of performingthe performing the specific actions that would [[satisfy ]] its [[biological needs]] [[need]]s, it must articulate those needs [[need]]s in vocal [[form ]] (demands[[demand]]s) so that [[another ]] (the [[mother]]) will perform the specific [[action ]] instead.
The primary example of such a [[biological ]] [[need ]] is hunger, which the [[child ]] articulates in a scream (Demand[[demand]]) so that the [[mother ]] will feed it.
<blockquote>"Through the mediation of the demand, the [[whole]] [[past]] opens up [[right]] to early infancy. [[The Subject|The subject]] has never done anything other than demand, he could not have survived otherwise, an we just follow on from there."<ref>{{E}} p. 254</ref></blockquote>
==Analysand==
However, while the [[speech]] of the [[analysand]] is itself already a [[demand]] (for a reply), this [[demand]] is underpinned by deeper [[demand]]s (to be [[cure]]d, to be revealed to himself, to become an [[analyst]]).<ref>{{E}} p. 254</ref>
==Analyst==
The question of how the [[analyst]] engages with these [[demands]] is crucial.
Certainly the [[analyst]] does not attempt to gratify the [[analysand]]'s [[demand]]s, but nor is it simply a question of [[frustration|frustrating]] [[them]].
==Development==
In 1961, [[Lacan]] rethinks the various [[stages]] of [[libidinal]] organisation as forms of [[demand]].
The [[development|oral phase]] of [[development]] is constituted by a [[demand]] (made by the [[subject]]) to be fed (which is a [[demand]] made by the [[subject]]).
In the [[development|anal stage]], on the other hand, it is not a question of the [[subject]]'s [[demand]], but the [[demand]] of the [[Other]] (the parent who disciplines the child in potty-[[training]]).<ref>{{S8}} p. 238-46, 269</ref>
In both of these [[development|pregenital stage]]s the [[satisfaction]] of [[demand]] eclipses [[desire]]; only in the [[genital stage]] does [[desire]] comes to be fully constituted.<ref>{{S8}} p. 270</ref>
==See Also==
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* [[Analysand]]
* [[Analyst]]
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* [[Biology]]
* [[Development]]
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* [[Desire]]
* [[Love]]
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* [[Mother]]
* [[Need]]
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* [[Other]]
* [[Speech]]
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* [[Structure]]
* [[Treatment]]
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