libidinal impulses. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The political dimension of the text is thus articulated in libidinal language; in Equiano's abolitionist intervention, his life story, the political is personal. From Wordnik.com. [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference
Though partly a parody of pretentious post-show "talk-backs," one senses a sincerity in Gillette's weariness with the "libidinal" aesthetic Dyer advocates. From Wordnik.com. [Gothamist] Reference
This is not to say that the stories are lacking in libidinal eccentricity. From Wordnik.com. [Miranda July���s Perversely Sentimental New Venture] Reference
Well, the thought just squashed all libidinal desire, as we say in the trade. From Wordnik.com. [Shrink Dreams] Reference
Groupies aside, he seems no more libidinal than most of the people around him. From Wordnik.com. [With Friends Like These] Reference
German settlers were similarly split over “primitive” and libidinal dancing. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
For them, this delicacy gives them some kind of improving their libidinal desires. From Wordnik.com. [Dog meat, anyone?] Reference
Any good lover knows that a woman's breasts are closely connected to her primary libidinal zone. From Wordnik.com. [Inside the Men's Locker Room.] Reference
A high proportion of the teenagers appeared orally fixated or regressed in libidinal development. From Wordnik.com. [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference
I can maybe see the hostile or jealous feelings towards his father, but libidinal feelings for his Mom?. From Wordnik.com. ["It’s one thing to watch Paul Giamatti scowling about in a presidential wig," as John Adams.] Reference
On the Enterprise, aggressive impulses aren't battling it out with libidinal ones as they are here on earth. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Ladowsky: Pedophilia and Star Trek] Reference
What he actually communicates is that he is weirdly libidinal, scarily naive and obsessively hostile to Israel. From Wordnik.com. [Jimmy's World] Reference
Grrrrr. So we did, and with every sentence that came out of his mouth at dinner, my libidinal compass took another tick south. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Alvear: Gay Dating: Women Are Ruining Sex for Gay Guys] Reference
Litman 1967 suggested that more emphasis on helplessness, dependency, and libidinal issues was appropriate in considering suicide. From Wordnik.com. [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference
The most striking thing about this child was her totally undefended outpouring of libidinal material, both at home and at the clinic. From Wordnik.com. [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference
Given these self-preoccupations, the adolescent commonly cannot develop a libidinal self-other object relationship with the therapist. From Wordnik.com. [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference
All libidinal energies, all corporeal desires, all human needs are trapped within the field of vision demarcated by audience and stage. From Wordnik.com. [How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision] Reference
People are used in make-believe friendships and identifications so that the adolescent can exercise his own aggressive and libidinal needs. From Wordnik.com. [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference
Kohut 1966 was critical of the exaltation of object love over narcissistic love and the tendency to criticize libidinal investment in the self. From Wordnik.com. [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference
Exaggeration of libidinal impulses which may surface as a sudden change from an inhibited child to an aggressive, sexually acting-out adolescent …. From Wordnik.com. [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference
Kierkegaard's infatuation with Regine, and the sublimated libidinal energy it lent to his poetic production, were crucial for setting his life course. From Wordnik.com. [Søren Kierkegaard] Reference
Romanticism's expressions of social transformation, both libidinal and traumatic, become something more than the cries of a supererogatory utopianism. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
She is a little Disney wonder who caught the national libidinal shift in a way no one has since Madonna and wasn't smart enough -- unlike Madonna -- to handle the ride. From Wordnik.com. [Holly Gleason: Somebody's Daughter, Somebodies' Mother: Britney Spears Plays Chicken with the Inevitable] Reference
In other words, libidinal language is deployed to make one understand the horrors that attend the libido's cancellation thereby founding a politics from the ground of the object. From Wordnik.com. [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference
Where would the horror genre be without its libidinal icons?. From Wordnik.com. [Twitch] Reference
By 12, his libidinal yearnings seemed to grow more conventional as he became. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
This haunting movie is suffused in libidinal energy, with more than a whiff of sulfur. From Wordnik.com. [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference
Each stage is characterized by the erogenous zone that is the source of the libidinal drive during that stage. From Wordnik.com. [Qwaider Planet] Reference
Of sign, object and a singular meaning, a meaning which is often an unconscious representation of a libidinal impulse. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
One reason for an unhappy marriage sometimes has to do with the fact that partners have very different libidinal drives. From Wordnik.com. [A Mental Health Reader] Reference
The need for submission and servitude, the 'libidinal economy,' and considerations from political anthropology are also reviewed. From Wordnik.com. [Refinance 2nd Mortgage] Reference
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