Libido vs. Eros — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Libido and Eros
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Libido
Libido (; colloquial: sex drive) is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity. Libido is influenced by biological, psychological, and social factors.
Eros
In Greek mythology, Eros (UK: , US: ; Ancient Greek: Ἔρως, romanized: Érōs, lit. 'Desire') is the Greek god of love and sex. His Roman counterpart was Cupid ("desire").
Libido
The psychic and emotional energy associated with instinctual biological drives.
Eros
Greek Mythology The god of love, son of Aphrodite.
Libido
Sexual desire.
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Eros
Often eros Creative, often sexual yearning, love, or desire
“Eros exists in Plato's and Aristotle's philosophy.
Behind Homer's poetry, Chopin's compositions, [and] Gauguin's exotic paintings.
Behind ... each and every discovery that gave humanity a new aspect” (Eleni Tagonidi Maniataki and Panos Mourdoukoutas).
Libido
Manifestation of the sexual drive.
Eros
(Psychiatry) Sexual drive; libido.
Libido
(common usage) Sexual urges or drives.
Good grief man, control your libido!
Eros
The sum of all instincts for self-preservation.
Libido
(psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
For Freudians, libido means the desire to "unite and bind" with objects in the world.
The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.
Eros
A winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power.
Libido
Synonym of albedoin terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.
Eros
Physical love; sexual desire.
Libido
Sexual desire; the sexual instinct; the sex drive.
Eros
A type of love that seeks fulfillment without violation or something else.
Libido
Those desires and instinctual energies which are derived from the id.
Eros
(psychiatry) libido
Libido
(psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire
Eros
(psychiatry) collective instincts for self-preservation; life drive.
Eros
Love; the god of love; - by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.
Eros
(Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid
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