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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==
It can be desexualized or used in [[sublimation]].
[[Libido]] is also described by Freud as being active and masculine.
Throughout his work, [[Freud]] conceives of maintained a dualism in which the [[libido]] as a quantitative is opposed to another (or "economic"non-sexual) concept: it is an form of energy which can increase or descrease, and which can be displaced.<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. SE XVIII. 1921c. p.90.</ref>
[[Freud]] insisted on made a distinction between the [[sexual]] nature of this energy, or libidinal drives and throughout his [[Works of Sigmund Freud|work]] he maintained a dualism in which the [[libido]] is opposed to another (nonself-sexual) form preservation of energyego drives.
===Carl Jung===
One of the major sources 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.
[[Jung]] opposed this dualism, positing a single form of life-energy which is neutral in character, and proposed that this energy be denoted by the term "[[libido]]."
[[Lacan]] uses the term 'libido' very sparingly, and tends to discuss sexuality in terms of [[desire]] and ''[[jouissance]]''.
In general [[Lacan]] does not use the term "[[libido]]" anywhere near as frequently as [[Freud]], preferring to reconceptualize sexual energy in terms of ''[[jouissance]]''.
[[Lacan]] rejects [[Jung]]'s monism and reaffirms [[Freud]]'s dualism.<ref>{{S1}} p.119-20</ref>
[[Lacan]] also follows [[Freud]] in affirming that the [[libido]] is exclusively [[masculine]].<ref>{{E}} p.291</ref>
===Imaginary and the Real===
In the 1950s [[Lacan]] locates the [[libido]] in the [[imaginary order]].
<blockquote>"Libido and the ego are on the same side. Narcissism is libidinal."<ref>{{S2}} p.326</ref></blockquote>
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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[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Jacques LacanSexuality]][[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Terms]]
