pleasure-pain principle

1. 1.

   (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality

   Synonymspleasure principlepleasure-unpleasure principle

   Broaderprinciple

   psychoanalysis

Questions about pleasure-pain principle

What does pleasure-pain principle mean?

pleasure-pain principle means "(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality".

What is another word for pleasure-pain principle?

Close synonyms include pleasure principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pleasure-pain principle a common word?

pleasure-pain principle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.