libido
Erotic energy source
Libido is sexual desire or drive.
Freud introduced the term to psychology, where it refers broadly to psychic energy or life force, but common usage focuses on the sexual: The medication lowered his libido.
Someone with a high libido wants sex frequently; a low libido means diminished interest.
Intense carnal appetite
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- appetiteDesire for food
urge · want · need · hunger · itch · arousal · passion · attraction
Desire for physical intimacy
- arousalStirring to heightened state
- eroticismSexual desire's aesthetic quality
- intimacyEmotional closeness between people
- sexual desireCraving for physical intimacy
attraction · potency · virility · sensuality · carnality · concupiscence · lovemaking · seduction
Unconscious instinctual drives
- egoOne's self-image
- superegoMind's moral overseer
- FreudFounder of psychoanalysis
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
psychoanalysis · repression · sublimation · pleasure principle · psychosexual · Oedipus complex · fixation · neurosis
lust
Intense carnal appetite
appetite · urge · want · need · hunger · itch · arousal · passion · attraction · infatuation
sex drive
Desire for physical intimacy
- arousalStirring to heightened state
- eroticismSexual desire's aesthetic quality
- intimacyEmotional closeness between people
sexual desire · attraction · potency · virility · sensuality · carnality · concupiscence · lovemaking · seduction · foreplay
id
Unconscious instinctual drives
unconscious · psychoanalysis · repression · sublimation · pleasure principle · psychosexual · Oedipus complex · fixation · neurosis · transference
energy
Power to do work
vim · verve · vivacity · exuberance · animation · liveliness · spark · oomph · pep · dynamism
- Men's Healthprostate cancer, low testosterone, erectile dysfunction, testosterone, male infertility
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud
- Psychology HistoryFreud, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Jung, William James
- psychology termsmotivation, habits, self-knowledge, stress, intuition
- sexologysexology, human sexuality, sexual behavior, sexual health, Kinsey Report
- sexualitysexual orientation, sexual behavior, erotica, sexual identity, bisexual
libidofrigidity
Extreme coldness or aloofness
asexuality · impotence · coldness · disinterest · chastity
libidospirituality
Connection to the sacred
asceticism · piety · transcendence · sublimation · divine love
- low libidoDecreased sexual desire
- high libido
- decreased libidoLessened sexual appetite