NOUN
- (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
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.