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Detailed Synonyms for pleasure-pain principle in English
pleasure-pain principle:
pleasure-pain principle [the ~] noun
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the pleasure-pain principle
– (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality 1the pleasure-pain principle; the pleasure-unpleasure principle; the pleasure principle– (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality 1