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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 The term "desire" or "lust,[[libido]]" was introduced into [[psychoanalytic theory]] by [[libidoFreud]] is a specifically sexual energy.

A distinction is made by [[Freud between ]] often employs metaphors from the sexual or libidinal drives and the self-preservation or ego drives[[science]] of hydraulics to describe [[libido]].

One [[Freud]] conceives of the major soruces of the disagreement between Freud and Jung is the later's tendency to desexualize the [[libido]] as an "[[economic]]" [[concept of libido and to dissolve it into a more general category of mental energy]].

==It is an energy which can increase or descrease, and which can be [[displaced]].<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund Freud==]]. [[SE]] XVIII. 1921c. p.90.</ref>

The term "It can be desexualized or used in [[libido]]" was introduced into [[psychoanalytic theory]] by [[Freudsublimation]].

It is said to be quantifiable, plastic and adhesive, and cna be attached to or withdrawn from objects thanks to [[Freud]] insisted on the mechanism of sexual [[cathexisnature]]of this energy.

It can be desexualized or used in [[sublimationLibido]]is a specifically sexual energy.

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 energy which can increase or descrease, and which can be displaced.<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmundform]]of energy. SE XVIII. 1921c. p.90.</ref>

[[Freud]] insisted on the made a [[sexualdistinction]] nature of this energy, and throughout his between the sexual or libidinal [[Works of Sigmund Freud|workdrives]] he maintained a dualism in which and the [[libidoself]] is opposed to another (non-sexual) form preservation of energyego drives.

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]]''.

===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>