PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLE

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 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)

Sense 1

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-pain principle; pleasure-unpleasure principle; pleasure 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)