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Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 1

Lectures on Lacan Podcast

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What Is Up With the Lacanian Registers?

The child doesn't know that they're hungry. All the child knows if it knows anything is that they're uncomfortable. Our job as primary caregivers is to interpret that cry, assign meaning to it. The word for that in Lacanian terms is not need but demand. Demand is need articulated in language. It's need that has been encoded into the symbolic. What is the meaning of demand? There's need, demand, above it is desire and beyond that is drive. Once we understand those, desire will follow. We can keep the drive alive another day.

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