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Pleasure Principle

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Noun

1. pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle

(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pleasure Principle

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noun
psychoanalysis
the idea that psychological processes and actions are governed by the gratification of needs. It is seen as the governing process of the id, whereas the reality principle is the governing process of the ego
See also hedonism

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Pleasure Principle

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Psychoanalysis
the automatic adjustment of the mental activity to secure pleasure, or gratification, and avoid pain, or unpleasantness

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pleasure Principle

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n.
In psychoanalysis, the tendency or drive to achieve pleasure and avoid pain as the chief motivating force in behavior.

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