Pleasure principle Definition & Meaning

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Pleasure principle

Pleasure principle Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Pleasure 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 principle: pleasure-pain principle \| pleasure-unpleasure principle Related Terms \| Find terms related to Pleasure principle: anima \| appetite \| appetitiveness \| ardor \| coconscious \| collective unconscious \| concupiscence \| conscience \| conscious self \| curiosity \| Cyrenaic hedonism \| Cyrenaicism \| death instinct \| desideration \| desire \| drive \| eagerness \| ego \| ego ideal \| ego-id conflict \| epicureanism \| epicurism \| ethical hedonism \| ethical self \| eudaemonism \| fancy \| fantasy \| foreconscious \| hedonic calculus \| hedonics \| hedonism \| hope \| horme \| id \| intellectual curiosity \| libidinal energy \| libido \| lust for learning \| luxuriousness \| luxury \| mind \| motive force \| need \| passion \| persona \| personality \| pleasure \| pleasure-loving \| pleasure-seeking \| preconscious \| primitive self \| psyche \| psychic apparatus \| psychological hedonism \| racial unconscious \| self \| sensualism \| sensuality \| sensualness \| sexual desire \| subconscious \| subconscious mind \| subliminal \| subliminal self \| submerged mind \| superego \| sybaritism \| thirst for knowledge \| unchastity \| unconscious \| unconscious mind \| urge \| vital impulse \| voluptuousness \| want \| wanting \| will \| will and pleasure \| wish \| wish fulfillment See Also \| principle

Pleasure principle Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pleasure 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 principle: pleasure-pain principle | pleasure-unpleasure principle

See Also | principle

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