pleasure principle

Example Sentences

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The creation is yet another example of the restaurant’s pleasure principle at work, and how apt to enjoy it while Cheryl Lynn is singing “Got to Be Real.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022

It won’t if we adopt a Mozartean pleasure principle that is substantive, not superficial.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2021

I find myself increasingly committed to the pleasure principle — first formulated by John Dryden in 1668.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2020

So thank God for the streaming services, for bringing the pleasure principle back to culture.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2019

The transition from the pleasure principle to that of fact is the most important advance in the development of the ego.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund