The History of Libido

If you consider yourself a sexually-active and open-minded individual, you’d perhaps heard of terms like lust, desire, orgasm and libido. But have you ever wondered where the word libido came from? Was it invented by the Greeks, the Turks, or the ancient Chinese? The word today is popularly used as a synonym for sexual desire, although it has diverse meanings and implications in different societies. Here’s a fun, yet somehow academic look at the history of the word libido.

1894 – Sigmund Freud Puts Libido In The Centre Of His Research

If you suffer from “low libido”, don’t worry because there are a lot of ways for reviving your flagging sex drive, so you can continue your fun and naughty ways with your partner or favourite Escort Asian Escorts in bed. But first, have you ever heard of a guy named Sigmund Freud?

Sigmund Freud is an Austrian neurologist who was considered as the “Father of Psychoanalysis”’. Psychoanalysis is a method wherein an analyst uncovers a person’s conflicts based on their dreams, free associations and fantasies. Freud developed a lot of popular theories on ego, child sexuality and libido, which up to now are considered to be very influential. 

In Freud’s “Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality”, libido was considered the main puzzle for his theories on childhood development and psychopathology. In his ideas on “infantile sexuality”, Freud described the development of libido in stages – the “oral” stage (from birth to 18 months), “anal” stage (18 months to 3 years), “phallic” stage (between 3 and 5 years old), “latency” stage (mid-childhood) and “genital” stage (from adolescence to adulthood). 

Carl Jung Opposes Freud’s Libido Theories

In 1913, famous Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung, parted ways with Sigmund Freud, especially on his theories on libido, when he published his book “Theory of the Unconscious”. He countered Freud by saying that libido was a “general, undifferentiated form of psychic energy”, and was not purely sexual energy. 

Jung also stressed that sexuality only emerged, and manifested itself, in puberty, as opposed to Freud’s assertions that it developed in the early childhood years. In 1976, renowned American psychologist and psychoanalyst Roy Schafer listed the 7 qualities of libido – direction, urgency, mobility, dischargeability, bindability, transformability and fusibility. Schafer also theorised that dreams, rituals, diseases, relationships and therapeutic effects can be explained through varying degrees of libido.

While libido was rarely discussed in public during Freud’s time, today newspaper columnists, talk show hosts, comedians as well as physicians and academics openly talk about it, and many recognise the value of healthy and proper sexual functioning as an indicator of general health and quality of life.

And if you’d like to further ramp-up your libido, and enjoy sex with the hottest and loveliest ladies in town, browse the galleries of Asian Escorts Sydney today, and inject an erotic, Oriental twist to your sensual experiences!

Related Items