Eros and Libido

Freud's distinction between Eros and Libido follows in the tradition of that between 'love' and 'lust', and between divinely sanctioned and divinely forbidden.  These are various characterizations given the manifestation of one and the same reproductive mechanism, varying according to gender, of course.  In other words, unless Freud has an empirical basis for the distinction, it likely comes from his Superego, an interiorization of a contingent social norm, and, thus, a medium of repression that has infected his diagnostic tools.