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This paper traces the concept of desire and its meaning in normal discourse through its use in psychoanalysis to some of the findings of affective neuroscience. Recent neuroscientific discoveries about how the brain works are compared with a psychoanalytic view of mental functioning to determine if they are compatible and to understand how they may inform the work of the analyst.