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pleasure principle

NOUN
principle behind instincts
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
reality principle


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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

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

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



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