pleasure 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-pain principlepleasure-unpleasure principle

   Antonymsreality principle

   Broaderprinciple

   psychoanalysis

Questions about pleasure principle

What does pleasure principle mean?

pleasure 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 principle?

Close synonyms include pleasure-pain 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.

What is the opposite of pleasure principle?

The recorded antonyms are reality principle.

Is pleasure principle a common word?

pleasure 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.