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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.
[[Freud]] often employs metaphors from the [[science]] of hydraulics to describe [[libido]].
[[Freud]] conceives of the [[libido]] as an "[[Libidoeconomic]]" refers to [[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It is said to be quantifiable, plastic and adhesive, and can be attached to or withdrawn from [[object]]s thanks to the [[mechanism]] of [[cathexis]].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 can be desexualized or used in [[sublimation]].
===Sexual Desire===
[[Libido]] is also described by [[Freud]] as [[being]] [[active]] and [[masculine]].
Throughout his [[work]], [[Freud]] 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]]."
[[FreudLacan]] insisted on uses the term "[[sexuallibido]] nature of this energy" very sparingly, and throughout his tends to discuss [[Works of Sigmund Freud|worksexuality]] he maintained a dualism in which the [[libidoterms]] is opposed to another (non-sexual) form of energy[[desire]] and ''[[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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* ''[[Jouissance]]''
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* [[Sublimation]]
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== References ==
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