libidon.

1909 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria vi. 147 The anxiety neurosis goes along with the most distinct diminution of the sexual libido or the psychic desire.

1913 C. 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.

1922 J. Strachey tr. S. Freud 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’.

1926 F. G. H. Coster Psycho-anal. for Normal People 37 Libido..is now very commonly, though not invariably, used to mean the total life-energy or vital impetus of the individual.

1929 Encycl. 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.

1932 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 249 The attempt to find the foundation of group behaviour in instinctive tendencies fails, as does the psycho-analytic ‘libido’ theory.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 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.

1953 Encounter 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.

1953 Encounter Nov. 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.

1971 Sci. Amer. Sept. 529/3 He shares the libido for new military systems that his entire guild displays.

1972 Sci. Amer. Aug. 46/2 It has also been observed that removal of the ovaries does not reduce the libido of human females.