pleasure principle

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.