PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does pleasure-pain principle mean? • PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLE (noun)
The noun PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLE has 1 sense:
1. (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
Familiarity information: PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLE (noun)
Meaning:
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
pleasure principle; pleasure-pain principle; pleasure-unpleasure principle
Hypernyms ("pleasure-pain principle" is a kind of...):
principle (a basic truth or law or assumption)
Domain category:
analysis; depth psychology; psychoanalysis (a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud)
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