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English noun: pleasure-pain principle

1. pleasure-pain principle (cognition) (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality


Synonymspleasure principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle


Broader (hypernym)principle


Domain categoryanalysis, depth psychology, psychoanalysis


Antonymsreality principle









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