pleasure principle

pleasure principle
    n 1: (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}]
    

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "pleasure principle":
      Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, anima, appetite, appetitiveness,
      ardor, coconscious, collective unconscious, concupiscence,
      conscience, conscious self, curiosity, 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