Energy and instincts

The libido or sex drive ( ; , "lust, desire") refers to a psychological energy that, in common parlance, encompasses all forms of sexual desire, but is sometimes also regarded as the driving force behind other needs, such as a mother's love for her infant. The term was originally developed by the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psychoanalysis. Initially it referred only to specific sexual needs, but he later expanded the concept to a universal desire, with the id being its "great reservoir". As driving energy behind all life processes, libido became the source of the social

concept from Freudian psychoanalytics

one of the four ancient Greek terms for types of "love"

instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoiding of pain in order to satisfy biological and psychological needs

term used by various esoteric forms of spirituality and alternative medicine

REDIRECT Death drive#Mortido and Destrudo

book by Carl Gustav Jung

REDIRECT Death drive#Mortido and Destrudo