pleasure principle

Example Sentences

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

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 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

But it's interesting to see how in 2015 the pleasure principle at Coachella is so all-consuming that it's able to absorb the most deliciously knuckle-dragging rock alongside the most avant-garde techno.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 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