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Noun: pleasure-unpleasure principle
  1. (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
    "The child's behaviour was driven by the pleasure-unpleasure principle";
    - pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle

Type of: principle

Antonym: reality principle