the recognition of a desire satisfies the desire.

 In a sympom, as we saw above, an unconscious desire seeks to make itself manifest. 

The symptom is recounted to the analyst, or else repeated in the way the subject responds to the analyst in the sessions.

 Then an interpretation is offered by the analyst, which recognizes or symbolizes the force of the desire at work in the symptom, and the symptom disappears. 

So here the recognition of a desire at the same time satisfies the desire. What this can accordingly only mean is that the unconscious desire given voice in the symptom