In psychoanalytic thought, libido (from the Latin: desire, lust) is the psychic and
emotional energy associated with man’s instinctual biological drives (sexual
desire). Though theoretically held in check by the ego and super-ego, in
Freudian thought libido understands
man as a sexual animal whose happiness derives from the unrestrained libido. The virtue of chastity in
Freudian logic could only end in illness and unhappiness. Such thinking became
normative in the United States in the 1960s, and it was not long before “the
greatest of natural mysteries,” the marriage act, was reduced to an openly discussable
“fun activity.”
Paul VI offered libido as one way Satan, the “malign, clever seducer” undermines
man’s sexual morality with his “sophistry.” The Devil’s strategy here, as the
Pope cautioned, is “eminently logical.” He approaches man with what amounts to
a false reason in his mind, which, if dwelled on, can influence the will by
rousing him to do something evil which seems to be good. Deceit is basic to his
strategy.
One Mad Mom Gives us a current example as it relates to Cathodic education.
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