pleasure principle
Example Sentences
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When it comes to eating, I believe in Freud’s pleasure principle: I avoid all pain.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2019
These are cinephile movies that venerate the form but refuse to let their intelligence obviate the pleasure principle.
From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2018
His films lurch ahead from strong moment to strong moment, following the pleasure principle of his own fervent curiosity rather than the tracks of a plot line.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 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
