pleasure-pain principle

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noun

(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id;
the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
• Syn:
pleasure principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle
• Ant:
reality principle (for: pleasure principle)
• Topics:
psychoanalysis, analysis, depth psychology
• Hypernyms:
principle