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In [[psychoanalysis]], the term "[[libido]]" is used to describe a [[mental]] -- [[psychic]] and emotional -- energy associated with [[instinct]]ual [[biology|biological]] [[drive]]s.
==Sigmund Freud==
The term "[[libido]]" was introduced into [[psychoanalytic theory]] by [[Freud]].
[[Freud]] often employs metaphors from the [[science]] of hydraulics to describe [[libido]].
[[Freud]] conceives of the [[libido]] as an "[[economic]]" [[concept]].
It is said to be quantifiable, plastic and adhesive, and can be attached to or withdrawn from [[object]]s thanks to the [[mechanism]] of [[cathexis]].
It is an energy which can increase or descrease, and which can be [[displaced]].<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. [[SE]] XVIII. 1921c. p.90.</ref>
It can be desexualized or used in [[sublimation]].
===Sexual Desire===
[[Freud]] insisted on the sexual [[nature]] of this energy.
[[Libido]] is a specifically sexual energy.
[[Libido]] is also described by [[Freud]] as [[being]] [[active]] and [[masculine]]. Throughout his [[work]], [[Freud]] often employs maintained a [[metaphordualism]]s from in which the [[sciencelibido]] of hydraulics is opposed to describe [[libidoanother]] (non-sexual) [[form]]of energy.It is said to be quantifiable, plastic [[Freud]] made a [[distinction]] between the sexual or libidinal [[drives]] and adhesive, the [[self]]-preservation of ego drives. ===Carl Jung===One of the major sources of the disagreement between [[Freud]] and can be attached to or withdrawn from [[objectJung]]is the later's thanks tendency to desexualize the mechanism concept of [[cathexislibido]] and to dissolve it into a more general [[category]]of mental energy.It can also [[Jung]] opposed this dualism, positing a single form of [[life]]-energy which is neutral in [[character]], and proposed that this energy be desexualized or used denoted by the term "[[libido]]." ==Jacques Lacan== [[Lacan]] uses the term "[[libido]]" very sparingly, and tends to discuss [[sexuality]] in [[sublimationterms]]of [[desire]] and ''[[jouissance]]''. In general [[Lacan]] does not use the term "[[Libidolibido]] is also described by " anywhere near as frequently as [[Freud]] as being , preferring to reconceptualize sexual energy in terms of ''[[jouissance]]''. [[Lacan]] rejects [[activity|activeJung]] 's monism and reaffirms [[masculinity|masculineFreud]]'s dualism.<ref>{{S1}} p.119-20</ref> Although He argues, with [[Freud]] refers to , that the [[libido]] throughout his work, he rarely defines the concept with any great precisionis exclusively [[sexual]].The clearest discussions are to be found [[Lacan]] also follows [[Freud]] in his Three Essays on affirming that the Theory of Sexuality, chapter 26 of the Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis and the second of the Two Encyclopedia Articles[[libido]] is exclusively [[masculine]].<ref>{{E}} p.291</ref>
In the 1950s [[Lacan]] locates the [[libido]] in the [[imaginary order]].
From 1964 on, however, there is a shift to articulating the [[libido]] more with the [[real]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.848-9</ref>
==See Also==
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* ''[[Jouissance]]''
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* [[Sublimation]]
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== References ==
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