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The term "[[libido]]" was introduced into [[psychoanalytic theory]] by [[Freud]].
Freud often employs metaphors from the sicence science 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It is said to be quantifiable, plastic and adhesive, and cna be attached to or withdrawn from objects thanks to the mechanism of [[cathexis]].