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libido
libido [Lat.,=lust], psychoanalytic term used by Sigmund Freud to identify instinctive energy with the sex instinct. For Freud, libido is the generalized sexual energy of which conscious activity is the expression. C. G. Jung used the term synonymously with instinctive energy in general. Many psych... Read more
extroversion and introversion
extroversion and introversion terms introduced into psychology by Carl Jung to identify opposite psychological types. Jung saw the activity of the extrovert directed toward the external world and that of the introvert inward upon himself or herself. This general activity or drive of the individua... Read more
birth control
birth control practice of contraception for the purpose of limiting reproduction. Methods of Birth Control Male birth control methods include withdrawal of the male before ejaculation (the oldest contraceptive technique) and use of the condom, a rubber sheath covering the penis. The condo... Read more
psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis name given by Sigmund Freud to a system of interpretation and therapeutic treatment of psychological disorders. Psychoanalysis began after Freud studied (1885-86) with the French neurologist J. M. Charcot in Paris and became convinced that hysteria was caused not by organic sympt... Read more
narcissism
narcissism , Freudian term, drawn from the Greek myth of Narcissus, indicating an exclusive self-absorption. In psychoanalysis, narcissism is considered a normal stage in the development of children. It is known as secondary narcissism when it occurs after puberty, and is said to indicate a libidina... Read more
Italo Svevo
Italo Svevo , 1861-1928, Italian novelist, whose real name was Ettore Schmitz, b. Trieste. A businessman, he wrote several works of fiction, but remained practically unknown until discovered by James Joyce . His fiction is psychological and introspective, his characters mainly narcissistic, and his... Read more
Truman Capote
Truman Capote , 1924-84, American author, b. New Orleans as Truman Streckfus Persons. During his lifetime, the witty, diminutive writer was a well-known public personage, hobnobbing with the rich and famous and frequently appearing in the popular media, before he lapsed into alcoholism in his final ... Read more

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Libido
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology Libido In Freudian psychology, a...or sexual energy. The term libido, which Sigmund Freud used...specifically with sexuality. Libido is central to the theory of...being primarily autoerotic and narcissistic to being directed at a love...
libido
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body libido Libido, like so many words associated with...erotic–obsessional–narcissistic, but a serious one since this was an...were these three ways of deploying the libido, one or two were almost certain to predominate...

Dictionary entries related to "narcissistic libido"

Ego-Libido/Object-Libido
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...that is to say, the libido theory) rests scarcely...description of this ego-libido that was soon to be...from repression in the narcissistic neuroses, "which consists...the great reservoir of libido" (1923b, p. 30...psychotic states and narcissistic neuroses (dementia...
Libido
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...drives ( Ichtriebe ); and the libido signifies for me only the energy...not I, who conceives of the libido as the animating force of all...contesting the sexual nature of the libido. Your affirmation applies...libido, now also called "narcissistic libido," was viewed as a...
Narcissistic Withdrawal
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis NARCISSISTIC WITHDRAWAL The term narcissistic withdrawal is used to describe the turning back of the individual's libido from the object onto themselves. Narcissistic withdrawal is what occurs in the hallucinatory...
Narcissistic Elation
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...its (illusory) oneness. Narcissistic elation is characteristic...preserve and return to this narcissistic mode of being, notably through...in bringing together the narcissistic elements of the self by integrating...interpretations of reality: ego-libido and object-libido must...
Narcissistic Neurosis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis NARCISSISTIC NEUROSIS Freud proposed the term narcissistic neurosis as a designation for...characterized by the withdrawal of libido onto the ego. German psychiatric...transference psychoneuroses and narcissistic psycho-neuroses, the latter...
Narcissistic Defenses
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis NARCISSISTIC DEFENSES Narcissistic defenses are psychic procedures...only) object of investment by the libido. Their function is to protect the...Precise indications of specifically narcissistic defenses are not to be found in...
Narcissism
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...the relationship between narcissistic identification and hysterical...opposition between ego-libido and object-libido. Narcissism...ego retained a permanent narcissistic cathexis that no instinctual...Essays (1905d), in which narcissistic libido was described as...
Hypochondria
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...his theory that the libido is divided into the object-libido and the (narcissistic) ego-libido. He...excessive, dammed-up narcissistic libido is essential...delusion and linked it to narcissistic pathologies affecting...
Sublimation
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...the transformation of object libido into ego libido before it could assume new aims...sexual object-libido into narcissistic libido, and then perhaps goes...object-libido but offers the narcissistic libido a needed extension...
"On the Origin of the 'Influencing Machine' in Schizophrenia"
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...innate" narcissism fixed the libido at the level of the organs...between object-libido and narcissistic libido, as revealed by the...organ, threatened in its narcissistic posture, independent of...objects were subordinated to a narcissistic object-choice by identification...

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Fantasme voyeuriste et perversion narcissique dans Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein de Marguerite Duras.(voyeurism and narcissistic perversion in the novel 'The Ravishment of Lol V. Stein' by Marguerite Duras)
Magazine article from: French Forum; 1/1/2008; 700+ words ; ...abandon de 1'object d'amour, Lol amorce en effet une retraite complete de la libido qui trouve plus de satisfactions dans le moi que dans l'aventure de la libido d'objet, source d'autres satisfactions mais aussi de la menace d'abandon...
Warming the heart on libido's furnace
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 2/6/2001; ; 566 words ; ...in a black cocktail dress apologising for her lateness because she couldn't get a taxi outside Harrods. The gloriously narcissistic speech which follows also opens Decadence, but then yields to Berkoff's eerie vision of ancient Greece. In this, Clytemnestra...
On the Aesthetic Structure of Sublimation: Re-reading Marcuse v. Brown through The Birth of Tragedy
Magazine article from: PSYART; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...to Brown, Marcuse sees in the reactivation of narcissistic libido in sublimation the potential for a new and liberatory...to Brown, Marcuse sees in the reactivation of narcissistic libido in sublimation the potential for a new and liberatory...
André Green: Associations (presque) libres d'un psychanalyste Entretiens avec Maurice Corcos [(Almost) Free associations of a psychoanalyst: Interview with Maurice Corcos]
Magazine article from: International Journal of Psychoanalysis; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...consequences, as is done in the course of an analysis. 'Creation consists of transforming a part of the objectal libido into narcissistic libido' (p. 109), which raises, on the one hand, the question of narcissism and, on the other, the question...
THE SIBLING COMPLEX: THOUGHTS ON FRENCH-ENGLISH "TRANSLATION"
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...1971) attempted to refigure classical metapsychology by proposing parallel lines of development based on narcissistic and object libido respectively. Taking this up, Grotstein (1981, pp. 87-89) proposed a dual track theory, and Ogden...
The Loudest Theatrical Nightmare
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/19/1999; 556 words ; ...They soon are joined by a secretive, sensitive young man who may or may not be a serial killer; a buffed, narcissistic fellow whose libido won't quit, and the owner of the vacation house, a talkative woman who turns out to be Trudy's mother...
'Rage' lacks slickness of its lead character.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 9/11/1998; ; 597 words ; ...sights on its protagonist, Christopher (John-Michael Lander). An A-list lawyer with money, looks and libido, narcissistic Christopher picks and chooses his lovers, and then loves 'em and leaves 'em. This slick slut claims to want...
A Fundamental Polarity in Psychoanalysis: Implications for Personality Development, Psychopathology, and the Therapeutic Process
Magazine article from: Psychoanalytic Inquiry; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...distinctions between object and ego libido (Freud, 1914, 1926...father who protects and a narcissistic choice based on what one...relationships, whereas a narcissistic choice involves ego libido...individuation and 'primary narcissistic union'-a polarity that...
The instructive urge. (behavior of 'generativity' in men)
Magazine article from: Esquire; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Ross, author of The Sadomasochism of Everyday Life, such men are angry, envious, selfish, and narcissistic. "They don't have much libido or feeling to invest in others, including the next generation," he says. "When they do mentor...
Life, longing, Liebestod: Richard Wagner in Thomas Mann's "Tristan" and "Tod in Venedig".(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Germanic Review; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...is diagnosed in people who give up their object-relationship due to an (possibly narcissistic) offense they experience. They then redirect their libido toward themselves. This particular form of disorder goes along with a lack of self...