pleasure principle

== English == === Noun === pleasure principle (psychology, psychoanalysis, Freudianism) The principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain. December 28 1998, Richard Lacayo, "Where The Right Went Wrong," Time (retrieved 4 July 2015): Bork warns that America is in the grip of a radical individualism that recognizes no limit to the right of personal gratification, one for which the pleasure principle is the only principle that counts. 2008 March 16, Claire Dederer, "Brownstoners" (book review of The Future of Love by Shirley Abbott), New York Times (retrieved 4 July 2015): They can’t seem to decide if the moral imperative is more crucial than the pleasure principle, or the other way around. ==== Translations ==== === See also === reality principle === Further reading === “pleasure principle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.