What's the difference between libidinous and sensual?

Libidinous


Definition:

  • (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.

Sensual


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.
  • (a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.
  • (a.) Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.
  • (a.) Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
  • (2) Back then, the entire city felt drenched in sensuality, and so did my home.
  • (3) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
  • (4) Even more graphically than Picasso’s Women of Algiers with their multiple breasts and bums, Nu couché is a sensual masterpiece – and far more conventionally so than anything Picasso painted.
  • (5) Let’s leave that discussion to another day, but imagine a combination of the two – sort of Transformers meets Ex Machina – in which a race of giant sexy robots battles it out with another race of really mean giant sexy robots while paltry human beings look on in awe, and teenage boys (and girls) experience incredibly conflicting and disturbing sensual awakenings in the front row of the Beckenham Odeon.
  • (6) Such myths were transformed by Renaissance artists such as Titian into alluring sensual painting.
  • (7) The only quality she seems to have, in his eyes, is a sensual body.
  • (8) "What I find most inspiring is how she expresses her sensuality," says Mara Carlyle, who made one of last year's most critically lauded albums, Floreat.
  • (9) And I began to wonder what a language might sound like that was not cool but hot, that was noisy and crowded and vulgar and sensual in a way that the Indian reality is.
  • (10) Pain is both sensual perception and sense of touch, and it leads to emotional change of health, which has an effect back to a pain perception.
  • (11) Like the American revolution and the French revolution, like the three major dictatorships of the 20th century – I say "major" because there have been more, Cambodia and Romania among them – and like the New England Puritan regime before it, Gilead has utopian idealism flowing through its veins, coupled with a high-minded principle, its ever-present shadow, sublegal opportunism, and the propensity of the powerful to indulge in behind-the-scenes sensual delights forbidden to everyone else.
  • (12) The secondary effects of Ecstasy were the stimulant effects of energy and activation, and the psychedelic effects of insight and perceptual and sensual enhancement.
  • (13) And Push had been very much part of that, it's such a sensual and sensitive way of dancing with another person.
  • (14) Gary organises a pre-surgery workshop about the mental transition needed from lingering trauma to embracing sensuality, and sends them all home with a vibrator.
  • (15) She was someone sensual, her skin being finally woken and properly explored.
  • (16) A sensual conspiracy fuels a virulent nostalgia, and the Cuban propensity for exaggeration ensures that it never dies.
  • (17) As she says, it “pushes the boundaries of what a carpet can be; turning it from this solidly domestic material into this sensual, cobra-like being.” The impetus to create a carpet – something Sterling has never done before – came from her stay in 2012 at the apartments in east London’s Raven Row .
  • (18) The Sensual World was originally intended as a direct lift of Molly Bloom’s monologue from James Joyce’s Ulysses , but Bush was forced to write her own lyrics when she was denied permission to quote the source material.
  • (19) It’s easy enough to hear the sensuality, of course, but to spot the undercurrent that makes her pierce you as much as soothe and seduce you, that’s getting more to the heart of her.
  • (20) Locals come here to kick off their weekend with a few cocktails, such as the Luchador Belt and the Chocolate Sensual.