Pleasure Principle
[n] (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
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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, epi