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Destrudo is the energy of the destructive impulse. It is the antonym of libido. While libido is the urge to create, destrudo is the urge to destroy, both yourself and everything around you. It is a less well known life force, and is usually ignored in place of more well known and well defined theories on human emotion. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Momentum#Impulse. ...
Antonyms, from the Greek anti (against) and onoma (name) are word pairs that are opposite in meaning, such as hot and cold, fat and thin, and up and down. ...
Libido in its common usage means sexual desire, however more technical definitions, such as found in the work of Carl Jung, are more general, referring to libido as the free creative, or psychic, energy an individual has to put toward personal development, or individuation. ...
Pop Culture References In the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion during the 9th chapter "Lilith", the character Hyuga reports that "the pilot's destrado [sic] is beginning to manifest" in reference to Shinji Ikari. The audio commentary on the DVD offers a very slight discussion and mentions that it should not be confused with the "Death Impulse". The name Weiss is also mentioned in having a lot to do with libido, destrudo and the death impulse in early psychology, but little else is mentioned. Destrudo is mentioned in episode 20 of the Evangelion TV series, too. Neon Genesis Evangelion Shin Seiki Evangerion) is an anime television series, begun in 1995, directed and written by Hideaki Anno, and produced by Gainax. ...
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