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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.
===Sexual Desire===
From the Latin word for "desire" or "lust," [[libido]] is a specifically sexual energy.
One of the major soruces of the disagreement between Freud and Jung is the later's tendency to desexualize the concept of libido and to dissolve it into a more general category of mental energy.
The term "[[libido]]" was introduced into [[psychoanalytic theory]] by [[Freud]].
Freud often employs metaphors from the sicence of hydraulics to describe libido.
It is said to be quantifiable, plastic and adhesive, and cna be attached to or withdrawn from objects thanks to the mechanism of [[cathexis]].
It can be desexualized or used in [[Freudsublimation]] .
==Jacques Lacan==
[[Lacan]] uses the term 'libido' very sparingly, and tends to discuss sexuality in terms of [[desire]] and ''[[jouissance]]''.
[[Lacan]] rejects [[Jung]]'s monism and reaffirms [[Freud]]'s dualism.<ref>{{S1}} p.119-20</ref>
