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Libido


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    • Energy, Sexual
    • Sex drive
    • Sexual drive
    • Sexual energy
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    • found: Work cat: Egan, R. Danielle. Becoming sexual, c2013:page 150 (One might posit that Freud's ideas, written over a century ago, are a relic ... Freud's emphasis on the necessity for redirecting a certain quantity of our libido, or sexual energy, towards the creation of art, new discoveries, the building of society -- what he termed sublimation -- renders the interpretation of his work problematic ... )
    • found: MeSH, viewed July 6, 2015(Libido; the psychic drive or energy associated with sexual instinct in the broad sense (pleasure and love-object seeking). It may also connote the psychic energy associated with instincts in general that motivate behavior)
    • found: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2015(Libido, concept originated by Sigmund Freud to signify the instinctual physiological or psychic energy associated with sexual urges and, in his later writings, with all constructive human activity)
    • found: Merriam-Webster online, Jul. 10, 2015(Libido: 1) instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity; 2) sexual drive)
    • found: Wikipedia, Jul. 10, 2015(Libido, and colloquially sex drive, is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity)
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    • 2015-07-06: new
    • 2015-10-14: revised
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