pleasure principle

NOUN
  1. (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
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How To Use pleasure principle In A Sentence

  • These primary processes always seek pleasure and avoid pain, that is, they function according to the pleasure principle.
  • These primary processes always seek pleasure and avoid pain, that is, they function according to the pleasure principle.
  • The idea that the function of the pleasure principle is to satisfy itself by hallucination is thereto illustrate this—it is only an illustration.
  • Since the traumatic incident was, by definition, unpleasant, its repetition appeared to contravene the pleasure principle.
  • But the cat he's unmistakably struggling to keep bagged is that influence-wise, neither Gone Dad nor Fake Dad was a match for that embodiment of the pleasure principle, Virginia (Cassidy, Blythe, Clinton, Dwire) Kelley — good-time gal, unrepentant gambling addict, and staunch believer in working hard and playing by her own rules. Policy Wank
  • Personally, I see nothing against this, especially as, in Freud, it is in this form that the real, namely, the obstacle to the pleasure principle, appears.
  • Since the traumatic incident was, by definition, unpleasant, its repetition appeared to contravene the pleasure principle.
  • The pleasure principle should motivate the programmes of study, and always be given high priority.
  • I find laziness a very unenjoyable experience but once I'm in a lazy state I find it very difficult to get out of it, as if the death instinct is dominating over the pleasure principle.
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