pleasure-unpleasure principle

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
pleasure-unpleasure 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}]
    

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