- pleasure principle as a noun:
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pleasure principle
noun
1 pleasure principle
psychoanalysis The governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality.
synonyms: pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle.
Moby thesaurus: Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, anima, appetite, appetitiveness, ardor, coconscious, collective unconscious, concupiscence, conscience, conscious self, curiosity, death instinct, desideration, desire, drive, eagerness, ego, ego ideal, ego-id conflict ... show more.
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