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Libido vs Thanatos - What's the difference?

libido | thanatos |

As nouns the difference between libido and thanatos

is that libido is sexual urges or drives while Thanatos is the death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.

As a proper noun Thanatos is

the god of death, (specifically of a peaceful death), and twin brother of Hypnos (god of sleep); the Greek counterpart of Mors.

libido

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (common usage) Sexual urges or drives.
    • Good grief man, control your libido !
  • (psychology) Drives or mental energies related or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
    • For Freudians, libido means the desire to "unite and bind" with objects in the world .
    The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros .

    Synonyms

    * horniness

    Antonyms

    * (in common usage ): boredom

    See also

    * nymphomaniac, hypersexuality, masturbator

    thanatos

    English

    (wikipedia Thanatos)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Greek god) The god of death, (specifically of a peaceful death), and twin brother of Hypnos (god of sleep); the Greek counterpart of Mors.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • (psychoanalysis) the (death drive) in Freudian psychoanalysis.

    • Usage notes

    Freud did not use the term “Thanatos” – instead he used – and scholarly works refer to it as “death drive”, but the term “Thanatos” is commonly used in psychoanalysis, in duality with Eros, having been introduced there by (Paul Federn).Civilization and its discontents, Freud, translator James Strachey, 2005 edition, p. 18

    Antonyms

    * (death drive) Eros (life drive)

    References