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libido Psychoanalysis.|lɪˈbiːdəʊ, -ˈaɪdəʊ|
[f. L. libīdo desire, lust.]
Psychic drive or energy, particularly that associated with the sexual instinct, but also that inherent in other instinctive mental desires and drives. Also transf. and attrib., as libido theory.
1909A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Sel. Papers on Hysteria vi. 147 The anxiety neurosis goes along with the most distinct diminution of the sexual libido or the psychic desire. 1913C. G. Jung in 17th Internat. Congr. Med. XII. i. 66 This infantile fixation, which is understood as an unconscious attachment of the sexual libido to certain infantile phantasies and habits. 1922J. Strachey tr. Freud's Group Psychol. 37 Libido is an expression taken from the theory of the emotions. We call by that name the energy..of those instincts which have to do with all that may be comprised under the word ‘love’. 1929Encycl. Brit. VIII. 399/2 The tenets of leading psycho⁓analysts assume a libido, with either one or two fundamental departments, sex, or sex and ego... The physiological basis of the libido and its emotions is hazy, to say the least. 1932Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 249 The attempt to find the foundation of group behaviour in instinctive tendencies fails, as does the psycho-analytic ‘libido’ theory. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revolution xv. 192 Libido is the nearest to such a term [sc. energy], but its use implies complete acceptance of orthodox psychoanalytic theory and has certain unsatisfactory connotations. 1953Encounter Nov. 25/2 We accept the fact that our sexual libido is thwarted. It is time for us to recognise that our political libido is just as complex-ridden, repressed, and twisted, if not even more. Ibid. 26/2 The political libido can be defined as the individual's need to feel himself as part of a community, his urge to belong. 1971Sci. Amer. Sept. 529/3 He shares the libido for new military systems that his entire guild displays. 1972Ibid. Aug. 46/2 It has also been observed that removal of the ovaries does not reduce the libido of human females. |