English noun: pleasure-unpleasure principle | |||
1. | pleasure-unpleasure principle (cognition) (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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | principle | ||
Domain category | analysis, depth psychology, psychoanalysis | ||
Antonyms | reality principle | ||