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Meaning of "pleasure principle"

The pleasure principle is a concept in psychology, introduced by Sigmund Freud, that suggests individuals seek pleasure and avoid pain. It implies that people are motivated to satisfy their immediate desires and achieve gratification
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  • The principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain.

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The pleasure principle or fun element is missing.
Classical music beyond the pleasure principle.
The pleasure principle works in all of us.
It is impulsive and operates on the pleasure principle.
The pleasure principle overrides everything.
War is part of the pleasure principle.
The pleasure principle seems to serve the death drives directly.
Surrealist games are a collective expression of the pleasure principle.
It is part of the pleasure principle and possesses no reality.
The youngest daughter represents the pleasure principle.
This is a revolt of the pleasure principle against the reality principle.
But the id works solely out of the pleasure principle.
Ruled by pleasure principle.
And let us not forget about the pleasure principle.
The dominance of the pleasure principle is mastered by the repetition compulsion.

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Freud wrote quite a bit about the pleasure principle.
Pleasure principle ii.
Independence from the pleasure principle.
The pleasure principle drives an individual to look for pleasure and to avoid pain.
Beyond the pleasure principle.
This compunction is powerful enough to overrule the pleasure principle.
Maintain the pleasure principle.
Freud inferred the existence of motivation beyond the pleasure principle.
It is simply the programme of the pleasure principle that determines the purpose of life.
The course taken by mental events is regulated by the pleasure principle.
It is the pleasure principle of Krsna consciousness that enables us to give up.
Exceptions to the pleasure principle.
Freud still wanted to examine the relationship between repetition compulsion and the pleasure principle.
The reality principle and pleasure principle are two competing concepts established by Freud.
But the id works solely out ofthe pleasure principle.
The Pleasure Principle can be used to develop advertising and marketing strategies.
All of this we can associate with the pleasure principle.
In Beyond the Pleasure Principle he considered how trauma or aggression could influence dream content.
The id resides in the unconscious and is driven by the pleasure principle.
I call it the Pleasure Principle.
The key to this behaviour is most likely to be found in the pleasure principle.
Pleasure principle Reality principle.
This essay starts to break with the logic of the pleasure principle.
Pleasure Principle festival.
She gives a solo dance performance while singing about the pleasure principle.
Beyond the Pleasure Principle or between the life force Eros.
Incarnate the law and the reality principle as against the pleasure principle.
It is principally in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that Freud develops his new view.
Freud examined the relationship between repetition compulsion and the pleasure principle.
See also, the pleasure principle in psychology.
The Id acts according to the pleasure principle.
The pain and pleasure principle is used, in this case.
It works in what Freud call the pleasure principle.
Do not let the pleasure principle run your life!
Considered by Freud to be more fundamental than the pleasure principle.

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