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pleasure-pain principle

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 Definition: [n]  (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
 
 Synonyms: pleasure principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle
 
 Antonyms: reality principle
 
 See Also: principle

 

 

 

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