Yesterday evening I saw on DVD: The Life of David Gale (2003). Great movie. It is about capital punishment, Particularly Nevertheless I was fascinated by a short speech made lecturer by Kevin Spacie about Lacan...and I went to collect some thoughts of this French professor from Wikipedia:
"Lacan distinguishes desire from need and demand. Need is a biological instinct that is articulated in demand, yet demand has a double function: on the one hand, it articulates need, and on the other, acts as a demand for love. Even after the need articulated in demand is satisfied, the demand for love remains unsatisfied. This remainder is desire.[42] For Lacan, "desire is neither the appetite for satisfaction nor the demand for love, but the difference that results from the subtraction of the first from the second." Lacan adds that "desire begins to take shape in the margin in which demand becomes separated from need." Hence desire can never be satisfied, or as Slavoj Žižek puts it, "desire's raison d'être is not to realize its goal, to find full satisfaction, but to reproduce itself as desire."
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