(a.) Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious.
Example Sentences:
(1) She walks through the rain to better feel her passion for the disarmingly libidinous walrus of love.
(2) These universal and extraordinary phenomena are conceptualized as representing the activity of the creative imagination in solving problems related to coping with intense narcissistic and libidinal pressures.
(3) A child whose mother herself knows no autonomy cannot develop its own fantasies through autoerotic activity and thus cannot build up a libidinal object in its inner world.
(4) P-APDs and borderline subjects (BPDs) produced similar mean numbers of borderline object relations; however, the BPDs were more anxious, produced more unsublimated aggressive and libidinal drive material, and evidenced greater potential for attachment.
(5) The main referring symptom was a pattern of intense libidinal looking at and aggressive looking away from others, which functioned as a preoedipal splitting to keep apart opposite "all good," life-enhancing and "all bad," deathlike self and object representations.
(6) His theory of transference grew from a need to explain how female patients libidinally distorted the reality of their male analysts.
(7) However his interpretation that these feelings are always based on libidinous wishes and jealousy seems to the author too farfetched and not fully proved in all cases.
(8) Primary narcissism has not evolved well or, said differently, is invested more with aggressive than with libidinal cathexis and is in an unfortunate association or balance with primary masochism.
(9) It's quite aggro," says Thorpe), and continues to track the band's obsessions with masculinity ( Nature Boy is inspired by the macho pantomime of WWF wrestlers), British culture and swaggering libidinousness.
(10) primary product) responses as a direct expression of the primary thought process as well as its libidinous or aggressive components; these components are further analysed in relation to the possible acceptance or rejection factor on the part of the environment.
(11) Constitutional factors, parents' personalities and parenting styles, and libidinal and aggressive zonal fixations all played a role in determining Bert's problems.
(12) The incidental pleasures in Fading Gigolo start with its sweet and slightly risible premise: John Turturro – a florist named Fioravante – has the sexual magic touch for the lonely, libidinous matrons of the One Percent.
(13) In this way he can break loose from his clinging dependency on an 'omnipotent object', his dyadic partner, and, through internalizing the therapist both in his female and his male aspects, create a libidinal object in his inner world.
(14) The continuing parochialization of the infantile neurosis to the phallic-oedipal period has been perpetuated in great part by a technical legacy which has tended to restrict reconstructions of the infantile neurosis to the more discursively recoverable libidinal events of that period, and to exclude its preoedipal and aggressive determinants which are more apt to be expressed through the nondiscursive modes of the transference through its acts and self states.
(15) Freud retraces the path of our problematic symptoms to a fund of repressed sexual and libidinal energy, whose fettered strivings results in overt neuroses.
(16) In this way, paradoxically, the first triangulated object relationship is experienced in a two-person relationship; the first heterosexual relationship develops in a relationship involving two females; the father as libidinal object is discovered in the mother.
(17) Results introduces a reflection on coma, its libidinal mobilization and its signification.
(18) Consider, too, the song's rap (itself a purportedly transgressive, musical subgenre which, through its very ubiquity in western culture has come to connote precisely its opposite, namely the repressive desublimation of libidinal flows) performed by Jennifer Lopez: "Tonight watch the world unite, world unite, world unite For the fight, fight, fight, one night Watch the world unite, Two sides, one fight and a million eyes."
(19) The patient libidinally and defensively identified with father's passive, masochistic position.
(20) Lack of confirmation of Mary's talents by her father may have hindered her development, propelling the child toward a profoundly libidinalized and enmeshed relationship with the mother.
Salacious
Definition:
(n.) Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
(2) "There's a global appetite for any North Korea story and the more salacious the better.
(3) Documents cite various occasions where players and coaches cursed or flipped each other the bird, as well as “salacious” Super Bowl concerts by Michael Jackson and Prince.
(4) The charges against them are as salacious as they are farcical,” Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said late last month .
(5) For the media, it was Bonnie and Clyde and Clyde – offering the salacious possibility of a murderous menage a trois Rather than investigating how far-right killers could have operated undetected for so long, most of the German media opted for lurid coverage of the NSU, insisting that it consisted of only three people.
(6) North Korea has attacked the South's "reptile media" for running salacious reports alleging Kim Jong-un ordered nine performers to be executed to protect his wife's reputation.
(7) It accuses Roberts’s lawyers of including the names of prominent individuals, which it says were irrelevant to the lawsuit, in an attempt to generate publicity with a motion that “simply proffers various salacious allegations as quotable tabloid fodder”.
(8) "They want to be able to show that which is salacious, that which is sensational… they want to give a sense of the drama of the courtroom."
(9) Each time the story is retold it changes, with new salacious details about public figures and world leaders.
(10) Much attention was focused on the salacious and graphic details accompanying the independent counsel's findings, which Mr Clinton's advisers believe will be decisive in setting the national mood in which the report is discussed.
(11) Gillian Slovo, daughter of anti-apartheid activists Joe Slovo and Ruth First, "worried when the author's sourcing was overtaken by its opposite: gossip, some of it salacious".
(12) The purpose of the act was to restrict reporting salacious deatails in divorces.
(13) The Borat star apparently walked after his vision of a racy treatment depicting Mercury's famously salacious lifestyle was at odds with the more family-friendly approach desired by the singer's erstwhile bandmates.
(14) Last year 40 female political journalists signed a petition complaining of persistent harassment by senior male politicians, such as comments complaining they weren’t showing enough cleavage, text messages asking them out, salacious comments, harassment and being asked after holidays: “Are you tanned all over?” Things have got so bad that a women’s group this week opened a free phone line providing legal advice for women who are victims of harassment by male politicians.
(15) They also accuse the salacious romance, itself the subject of controversy after stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux alleged Kechiche bullied them on set , of veering into child porn territory.
(16) Some are overtly salacious; others, like 2004’s Precious Boys, sad and soulful.
(17) Over the past decade, the agency has been involved in fewer salacious incidents and has moved away from the "good ol' boy" image that dogged it in the past, according to the New York Times.
(18) Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman's death is insufficiently sad to be left un-supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mourn-ography posing as analysis.
(19) The genre has become increasingly salacious in the intervening years, as women have revealed ever more intimate details of couplings to papers so grateful for their indiscretions that they shell out thousands of pounds for the privilege of publishing them.
(20) Another possibility, the newspaper admitted, was that Leone was not seen as authentically Indian and "no one minds a salacious Caucasian".