'pleasure principle' definitions:
Definition of 'pleasure principle'
From: WordNet
noun
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality [syn: pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle] [ant: reality principle]
Synonyms of 'pleasure principle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anima,
- appetite,
- appetitiveness,
- ardor,
- coconscious,
- collective unconscious,
- concupiscence,
- conscience,
- conscious self,
- curiosity,
- Cyrenaic hedonism,
- Cyrenaicism,
- death instinct,
- desideration,
- desire,
- drive,
- eagerness,
- ego,
- ego ideal,
- ego-id conflict,
- epicureanism,
- epicurism,
- ethical hedonism,
- ethical self,
- eudaemonism,
- fancy,
- fantasy,
- foreconscious,
- hedonic calculus,
- hedonics,
- hedonism,
- hope,
- horme,
- id,
- intellectual curiosity,
- libidinal energy,
- libido,
- lust for learning,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- mind,
- motive force,
- need,
- passion,
- persona,
- personality,
- pleasure,
- pleasure-loving,
- pleasure-seeking,
- preconscious,
- primitive self,
- psyche,
- psychic apparatus,
- psychological hedonism,
- racial unconscious,
- self,
- sensualism,
- sensuality,
- sensualness,
- sexual desire,
- subconscious,
- subconscious mind,
- subliminal,
- subliminal self,
- submerged mind,
- superego,
- sybaritism,
- thirst for knowledge,
- unchastity,
- unconscious,
- unconscious mind,
- urge,
- vital impulse,
- voluptuousness,
- want,
- wanting,
- will,
- will and pleasure,
- wish,
- wish fulfillment