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PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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; pleasure principle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("pleasure principle" is a kind of...):
principle (a basic truth or law or assumption)
Domain category:
analysis; depth psychology; psychoanalysis (a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud)
Antonym:
reality principle ((psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego; the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it)
