Abandonment Quote by Sigmund Freud

“There is a schism in me, between the erotic and the intimate. One, by definition, negates the other. For me the pursuit of sensuality…

— Tobsha Learner

“The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself.”

— Norman O. Brown

“You do not know what you are missing by your microscopic examination of sexual activity to the exclusion of aspects which are fuel that…

— Anais Nin

Eroticism evokes a sense of desire ; vulgarity simply destroys the human value of any sexual act -_-

— Shubhi Sharma

“Reich described the redirection of unmet desires as sublimation, in which natural libidinal urges and raw bodily drives for connection and release transform into…

— Laurence Galian

I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

— Carl Jung

“The articulation of the other's body in words turns it into a map of possible pleasure, effectively distancing that body by transforming it into…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.”

— Frank Tallis

“The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the…

— Audre Lorde

On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

— Warren Farrell

“If women were as libidinous as men, we’re told, society itself would collapse. Lord Acton was only repeating what everyone knew in 1875 when…

— Christopher Ryan

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world…

— Mario Vargas Llosa