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libido
noun
In common usage
; sexual urges or drives.
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Good God man, control your libido!
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A mosquito, my libido' -From the Nirvana song "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
(
psychology
) Drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
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For Freudians, libido means the desire to "unite and bind" with objects in the world
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The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros''.
Etymology:
From the Latin,
Latin, libido
, "lust" or "desire". Used originally in Psychoanalytic contexts.
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