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Libido

LC control no.sh2015001702
Topical headingLibido
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Variant(s)Energy, Sexual
Sex drive
Sexual drive
Sexual energy
See alsoMotivation (Psychology)
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Sex (Psychology)
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Found inWork cat: Egan, R. Danielle. Becoming sexual, c2013: page 150 (One might posit that Freud's ideas, written over a century ago, are a relic ... Freud's emphasis on the necessity for redirecting a certain quantity of our libido, or sexual energy, towards the creation of art, new discoveries, the building of society -- what he termed sublimation -- renders the interpretation of his work problematic ... )
MeSH, viewed July 6, 2015 (Libido; the psychic drive or energy associated with sexual instinct in the broad sense (pleasure and love-object seeking). It may also connote the psychic energy associated with instincts in general that motivate behavior)
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2015 (Libido, concept originated by Sigmund Freud to signify the instinctual physiological or psychic energy associated with sexual urges and, in his later writings, with all constructive human activity)
Merriam-Webster online, Jul. 10, 2015 (Libido: 1) instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity; 2) sexual drive)
Wikipedia, Jul. 10, 2015 (Libido, and colloquially sex drive, is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity)