pleasure principle

Noun
  1. (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id;
    The principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality (synset 105880414)
    referred to in: analysis, depth psychology, psychoanalysis - a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud
    is a type of: principle - a basic truth or law or assumption
    same as: pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle

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