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Libido vs. Eros — What's the Difference?

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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