Drive

Drive [*Trieb*] is the inner, active movement of the living being, which springs from **need** (the "being-for-itself" felt as lack) and presses toward its satisfaction (assimilation) (Chap. 19.2). It is the motor of the second life-process, **self-preservation** (Chap. 19.4.2). Drive is a contradiction: the living being is incomplete (lack) and actively strives toward completeness (satisfaction). Hegel calls it "natural teleology," since it is purposive (directed toward self-preservation) but not yet conscious. Cognition (Chap. 21) likewise springs from a drive (the desire for knowledge) that sublates the immediacy of life (Chap. 19.8).