Associations to the word «Libido»

Wiktionary

LIBIDO, noun. (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.
LIBIDO, noun. (psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
LIBIDO DOMINANDI, noun. (chiefly in Voegelinian philosophy) The will to power; the desire to dominate; the lust for government.

Dictionary definition

LIBIDO, noun. (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire.

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley