The desire for sexual activity In psychoanalysis, the psychic energy associated with the life instinct
Drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves
psychological energy (don't confuse with Freud's "libido," an inherently sexual drive energy) that is finalistic and founded not on substances but their relations and movements Always in advance of consicousness, calling us into new activity Libido in turn is a part of the life energy that drives all organisms to grow and develop Its first expression is in the energy of growth that causes cell division, budding, etc (so it IS sexual at first) As you climb the phylogenetic ladder, libido used for sexuality loses its sexual character and flows into other forms
A person's libido is the part of their personality that is considered to cause their emotional, especially sexual, desires. Lack of sleep is a major factor in loss of libido. libidos someone's desire to have sex. Physiological and emotional energy associated with the sex drive. The concept was originated by Sigmund Freud, who saw the libido as linked not only with sexual desire but with all constructive human activity. He believed that psychiatric illnesses were the result of misdirecting or suppressing the libido. Carl Gustav Jung used the term more broadly to encompass all life processes in all species