pleasure principle
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Lustprinzip
The principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the…The principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain.
Meaning
1 sensesThe principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain.
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- (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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By meaning 1
principle that human decisions are motivated by desire:
Forms
plural: pleasure principles| Singular | pleasure principle |
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Synonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality:pleasure-pain principlepleasure-unpleasure principle
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
1 related wordsRelatedreality principle
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