| 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 | ||
| Synonyms | pleasure principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | principle | ||
| Domain category | analysis, depth psychology, psychoanalysis | ||
| Antonyms | reality principle | ||