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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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