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"[[Libido]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[libido]]'')
he psychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drives.
==Sigmund Freud==
The term "[[libido]]" was introduced into [[psychoanalytic theory]] by [[Freud]].
[[Freud]]
[[Freud]] conceives of the [[libido]] as a quantitative (or "economic") concept: it is an energy which can increase or descrease, and which can be displaced.<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. SE XVIII. 1921c. p.90.</ref>
