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pleasure-unpleasure principle

DEFINITIONS OF: pleasure-unpleasure principle

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n (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality

Synonyms:
pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle
Antonyms:
reality principle
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego; the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it
Type of:
principle
a basic truth or law or assumption
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