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Pleasure-pain principle

Pleasure-pain principle Meaning & Definition
Pleasure-pain principle Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pleasure-pain principle?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pleasure-pain principle: pleasure principle | pleasure-unpleasure principle

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