pleasure principle
Example Sentences
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The excessive, destabilising bit of the pleasure principle that’s channelling the death drive.
From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2019
But unlike Salonen’s moody Pollux and frenzied Castor, Partch applied the pleasure principle.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2019
When it comes to eating, I believe in Freud’s pleasure principle: I avoid all pain.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2019
Strangely, the film’s modest dramatic virtues work actively against the pleasure principle and diminish the film’s strongest elements.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2015
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
