Abstract

LOPES, Anchyses Jobim. Brief introduction to a history of libido: Latin Poets, Saint Augustine and Freud (through Foucault). Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2011, n.35, pp.23-39. ISSN 0100-3437.

Is the concept of perverse polymorph sexuality a return or not to the Greek and Roman sexuality? The word libido and its possible origins in Freud’s work. The use and frequency of word libido by the Latin poets and writers. The sexual practices that could have been coetaneous to this use. Frequency and use of the word libido by Saint Augustine. The condemnation of all non-reproductive sexuality by Augustine. Sexuality at the Freudian works as both a refuse of Christian and of Roman-Greek sexuality.

Keywords : Libido; Sexuality; Erotism; Latin literature; Agostinianism.

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