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pleasure principle

NOUN
principle behind instincts
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Antonyms
WEAK
reality principle


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I wanted to edit this anthology with the pleasure principle.

From Washington Post Aug. 24, 2021

The pastry chef Grayson Claes, who comes to Sona from Eleven Madison Park, has a keen sense of how to complicate a dessert without losing the pleasure principle.

From New York Times Jun. 7, 2021

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

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 Sigmund Freud



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