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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : li-bee-doh |
| Phonetic Transcription : lɪˈbi doʊ |
Définition of libido
Origin :- "psychic drive or energy, usually associated with sexual instinct," 1892, carried over untranslated in English edition of Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathia Sexualis"; and used in 1909 in A.A. Brill's translation of Freud's "Selected Papers on Hysteria" (Freud's use of the term led to its popularity); from Latin libido "desire, lust," from libere "to be pleasing, to please," ultimately cognate with Old English lufu (see love (n.)).
- noun sex instinct
- Libido is what earlier psychologists called "will" or "tendency."
- Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
- Libido can perhaps be described as "effect," or "capacity for effect."
- Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
- Libido is an expression taken from the theory of the emotions.
- Extract from : « Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego » by Sigmund Freud
- Libido: Life-force, élan vital, or (restricted) the energy of the sex-instinct.
- Extract from : « Outwitting Our Nerves » by Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury
- On the opposite page Pudicitia—in a very spirited attitude—is driving her spear through the throat of Libido.
- Extract from : « Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages » by Edward Lewes Cutts
- Libido effrenata effrenatam appetentiam efficit—Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
- Extract from : « Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources » by James Wood
- Libido is intended to be an energising expression for psychological values.
- Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
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