It may be added here that the question of the hereditary nature of the sexual instinct has been exhaustively discussed and decisively affirmed by Moll in his Untersuchungen über die Libido Sexualis, 1898.
He was emboldened to give new expression to his incestuous libido which found symbolic satisfaction in labouring over mother earth.
The psychology of the neuroses taught us that when wish feelings undergo repression their libido becomes transformed into anxiety.
Every new advance of the repressedlibido is answered by the prohibition with a new severity.
Hence the incestuous fixations of the libido still play or again are playing the main role in his unconscious psychic life.
At both points, therefore, the Church requires that the position of the libidowhich is given by a group formation should be supplemented.
They are those which occur after the loss of a loved object, whether by death or as a result of circumstances which have necessitated the withdrawal of the libido from the object.
From the standpoint of the libido theory it is a further manifestation of the inclination, which proceeds from the libido, and which is felt by all living beings of the same kind, to combine in more and more comprehensive units.
Moreover, that the unification of the ego is liable to the same interferences as that of the libido is shown by numerous familiar instances, such as that of men of science who have preserved their faith in the Bible, and the like.
The libido props itself upon the satisfaction of the great vital needs, and chooses as its first objects the people who have a share in that process.
The development of the libido in children has made us acquainted with the first but also the best example of sexual instincts which are inhibited in their aims.
We see that the object is being treated in the same way as our own ego, so that when we are in love a considerable amount of narcissistic libido overflows on to the object.
But this further development in the distribution of libido in the group is probably the factor upon which Christianity bases its claim to have reached a higher ethical level.
Being in love is based upon the simultaneous presence of directly sexual tendencies and of sexual tendencies that are inhibited in their aims, so that the object draws a part of the narcissistic ego-libido to itself.
Libido is an expression taken from the theory of the emotions.
All that is in the world is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, or the pride of life; libido sentiendi, libido sciendi, libido dominandi.
From this formula, which has since proved its validity more and more clearly, we may deduce the conclusion that the content of anxiety dreams is of a sexual nature, the libido belonging to which content has been transformed into fear.
It may be added that the various questions involved in the definition of the sexual instinct have been fully discussed by Moll in the early sections of his Untersuchungen über die Libido Sexualis.
Raro sermo illis, et magna libido tacendi=--They seldom speak, and have a great conceit of holding their tongues.
For, as Maximus Tyrius the Platonist observes, libido consequuta quum fuerit materiam improbam et praeruptam licentiam, et effrenatam audaciam, &c.
Libido is the life energy,--but all the Freudian analyses of actual cases published make libido sex, and usually "perverse.
In contradistinction to the object-libido we also call the ego-libido narcissistic libido.
From psychoanalysis we look over the boundary which we are not permitted to pass into the activity of the narcissistic libido and thus form an idea of the relations between the two.
Concerning the fates of the object libido we also state that it is withdrawn from the object, that it is preserved floating in special states of tension and is finally taken back into the ego, so that it again becomes ego-libido.
Of special interest are those cases in which the libido changes, taking on the character of inversion after a painful experience with the normal sexual object.
The task of a theory of libido of neurotic and psychotic disturbances would have for its object to express in terms of the libido-economy all observed phenomena and disclosed processes.
But this ego-libido becomes conveniently accessible to psychoanalytic study only when the psychic energy is employed on sexual objects, that is when it becomes object libido.
Or the disease comes on later, owing to the fact that the libido is unable to attain normal sexual gratification.
It agrees with the masculine designation of the libido in the text above, for the libidois always active even when it is directed to a passive aim.
It is noteworthy too that her unquiet libidotransforms itself toward Joern Uhl into anger and animosity and so much so that once in anger she addresses him as "thou" and acts as if she were his beloved.
Moll has a passage on the sense of smell in the blind, more especially in sexual respects, Untersuchungen über dieLibido Sexualis, bd.
In some cases the increased libido is distinctly due to local congestion, congestion of the ovaries, the uterus, etc.
Some men "kill" four or five women before the fury of their libido is at last moderated.
But I would always have my misgivings, and should the wife's apparently absent but in reality only dormant libido suddenly awaken there would be trouble for both husband and wife.
Where the woman's libido is normal or near normal, then naturally it should be normally gratified.
A wife possessed of excessive libido is a terrible calamity for a husband of a normal or moderate sexuality.
It would be a good thing if a man could find out the character of his future wife's libido before marriage.
But where the woman has strong libido during that time and has no libido at any other time, relations may be indulged in during the last day or two of the menses.
But a really excessive libido on the part of either husband or wife should constitute a valid ground for divorce.
All that repressed libido must be released and diverted.
Moll refers to the case of a man whose erotic dreams occurred every fortnight, and always on Friday night (Libido Sexualis, Band I, p.
Moll at one time went so far as to assert that when masturbation takes place we are not entitled to admit exhibitionism, (Untersuchungen über die Libido Sexualis, bd.
Moll quotes the opinion of an experienced observer to the same effect (Untersuchungen über die Libido Sexualis, Bd.
XV), while admitting that libido or lust is merely the generic name for all desire, adds that, as specially applied to the sexual appetite, it is justly and properly mixed up with ideas of shame.
The old men who sat at home hated the Hun because their libido was being bottled up, but the young men who were using up their libido in fighting talked cheerfully of "Old Fritz.
The chained dog soon becomes savage, and the chained libido reverts to savagery also.
A neurosis is the outcome of repression; the neurotic is a person whose libido or life force is bottled up; he can be cured only by letting his pent up emotions free.
The name sexual appetite (libido sexualis) is given to the passionate and purely sexual desire of the two sexes for each other.
By sexual desire (libido sexualis) we mean the manner in which the sexual appetite manifests itself in man.
This is readily found when we follow the further utilization of the libido thus withdrawn.
However, a withdrawal of libido is not an exclusive occurrence in paranoia, nor is its occurrence anywhere necessarily followed by disastrous consequences.
In hysteria the freed sum of libido becomes transformed into bodily innervations of fear.
But we are informed that a withdrawal of the libido may, and frequently does, occur also in normal people.
The withdrawal of the libido as such cannot therefore be considered as pathogenic of paranoia.
Again the growing libido may become fixed in the "narcissus stage.
Or the libido may remain fixed upon the parent, rendering the individual in some degree incapable of a normal mature love life.
Indeed, in normal life there is a constant withdrawal of libido from persons and objects without resulting in paranoia or other neuroses.
They have withdrawn their sum of libido from the persons of their environment and the outer world.
Normally, we immediately seek a substitute for the suspended attachment, and until one is found the libido floats freely in the psyche and causes tensions which influence our moods.
Clinical indications teach us that in paranoia a special use is made of the libido which is withdrawn from its object .
The withdrawal of the libido from the ordinary affairs of life renders the latter valueless.
It requires a special character to distinguish the paranoiac withdrawal oflibido from other kinds of the same process.
If he meets with a piece of misfortune, he is likely to seek imaginary security and compensation by a "regression" of the libido and a revival of childlike affection for the mother image.
Although his wife never told him so openly and in so many words, he felt convinced that the trouble had begun more or less because his wife's sexuallibido was not satisfied in her sexual relations with him.
He admits that she is a passionate woman, her sexual libido was of such strength that he, much older than she, and not too strong physically, could but little gratify her.
This confusion of problems is, I think, the fundamental error of Jung and others in treating of the libido when he and they attempt to explain specific phenomena as empirically observed.
Jung undertakes to resolvelibido into the energy of the universe.
It would seem that these constructive delusions really correspond to interpretative schemes whereby a certain amount of the split off libido becomes synthesized.
For some unknown reason the libido seems to have an abnormal intensity.
Their very precociousness aids the parental fixation and adhesion, and makes it the more difficult for the libido to detach itself at the proper age.
Sir, this proves your Libido to have been fixated at the 'voyeur' level.
That mechanism of cure, may be stated as follows: How can one take the split off libido which results from the analytic technique and apply it to a better constructive synthesis?
From this point of view anything getting in the way of the libido discharge has to take the consequences.
Jung is suggesting for Horme, as a companion word for Libido or for elan vital.
Are they advocated by the individual whose libido is finding abundant expression in the natural channels of business and family life, or by his less fortunate brother who can gain a sense of power only by means of some unaccustomed idea?
If a psycho-neurosis is caused by a failure of an insistent instinct to find adequate expression, by a blocking of the libido or the love-force, what are the conditions which bring about this blocking?
