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In [[psychoanalysis]], the term "[[Libidolibido]]" (is used to describe a [[mental]] -- [[psychic]] and emotional -- energy associated with [[instinct]]ual [[Frbiology|biological]]. ''[[libidodrive]]'')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 It is said to be quantifiable, plastic and adhesive, and can be attached to or withdrawn from [[object]]s thanks to the [[mechanism]] of [[cathexis]].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 [[sexualnature]] nature of this energy, . [[Libido]] is a specifically sexual energy. [[Libido]] is also described by [[Freud]] as [[being]] [[active]] and throughout [[masculine]]. Throughout his [[Works of Sigmund work]], [[Freud|work]] he maintained a [[dualism ]] in which the [[libido]] is opposed to [[another ]] (non-sexual) [[form ]] of energy. [[Freud]] made a [[distinction]] between the sexual or libidinal [[drives]] and the [[self]]-preservation of ego 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]]."
==Jacques Lacan==
[[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>
He argues, with [[Freud]], that the [[libido]] is exclusively [[sexual]].
[[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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* ''[[Jouissance]]''
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* [[Sublimation]]
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== References ==
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