The psychic drive or energy usually associated with the sexual instinct. (Sexual is used here in the broad sense to include pleasure and love-object seeking.)
This is the name that Jung gives for psychic energy. Just as the physical body has energy, so does the psyche.
The desire for sexual intimacy. A breast cancer diagnosis and some breast cancer treatments may impact libido.
Since Freud, the word «libido» designates the sexual urge, more precisely the psychic aspect of this urge which, like all urges, also has a biological source. It is therefore not exclusively linked to the genital organs. Back
The natural desire for sexual intercourse.
sex drive or desire. May be severely affected by hormone therapy.
sexual desire or sex drive.
interest in sexual activity; the psychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drives
A term that refers to someone's sex drive, the desire for sexual union and pleasure.
Sexual desire or instinct.
Sexual interest. Horniness.
Psychic energy in general; commonly used to refer to sexual drive.
Desire for sexual activity.
The sex drive, and especially the energy it creates.
Another word for sexual drive.
Interest in sexual activity; compare to impotency.
The interest in and urge to have sex.
a person's interest in sexual activity.
conscious or unconscious sexual desire.
The psychic energy or instinctual drive associated with sexual desire.
Sexual drive. In psychoanalysis, the psychic energy from all instinctive biological drives. See the entire definition of Libido
Also referred to as sex drive. Emotional or psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges and that is usually goal-directed.
The psychic energy that motivates the psyche. Interest, attention and drive are all expressions of libido. The libido invested in a given item is indicated by the quantity of its "value-charge," either positive or negative.
Term used by Freud to refer to sexual energy; the driving force in humans according to him.
the emotional energy derived from primitive biological urges, sex drive
interest in and desire for sex
Psychic drive or energy associated with sexual energy; energy of life instinct, the desire for sexual union and pleasure.
Characteristics that relate to an animal's sexual drive or desire.
Sexual desire. During times of stress, either physical or mental, libido may decrease, in part because of an imbalance of hormones in the body.
The psychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drives; sexual desire or manifestation of the sexual drive.
Freud's term for the sexual energy of the id. (446)
Sex drive or agressiveness exhibited by the male.
Usually refers to the ram's sex drive.
The manifestation of sexual desire.
A concept originally created by Freud to describe the sex drive. As used by Jung, the term refers to a person's use of unconscious energy as a whole not just limited to the biological.
sexual desires or sex drive.
the sexual drive, conscious or unconscious
The energy arising out instinctual drives, especially sex.
sex drive or sexual desire.
instinctual drive associated with sexual desire, pleasure, or creativity.
(Latin, "desire," "love") In Jung's terminology, the psychic energy that underlies all psychic manifestations (drives, aspirations, etc.)
Sex drive. Desire to mate.
Sexual desire and energy.
Sexual potential. When your libido is high, you are horny as all hell.
A Freudian term used to describe a person's sexual desire or drive.
(Latin for lust). In Freud?s psychoanalytic theory, the psychic energy of the id. See also id.
A desire for sex, or sex drive. Menopause: The period when a woman permanently stops menstruating and is no longer able to conceive. During this period, a woman's ovaries stop producing the hormones estrogen and progesterone. The average age of natural menopause is 50 years old, however, women who have had surgery to remove reproductive organs (such as a hysterectomy) may experience menopause at an earlier age.
Libido in its common usage means sexual desire; however, more technical definitions, such as those found in the work of Carl Jung, are more general, referring to libido as the free creative—or psychic—energy an individual has to put toward personal development, or individuation.