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Noun: pleasure principle  'ple-zhur 'prin-su-pul
  1. (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
    - pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle

Derived forms: pleasure principles

Type of: principle

Antonym: reality principle

Encyclopedia: Pleasure principle

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