libido

     

Constructs Psychosexual evelopment Psychosocial development Conscious • Preconscious • Unconscious Psychic Apparatus Id, ego, and super-ego Libido • Drive Transference • Sublimation • Resistance

Trivia about libido

  • Freudian term that referred originally to the id's sexual energy but later to all human drives
  • This term for the sex drive comes from the Latin for "lust"
  • A concept created by Freud, it's the source of the aggressive drive, as well as the sexual drive
  • This Freudian term refers to all the instinctual desires & energies from the id, not just the sexual ones