(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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pleasure-pain principle::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pleasure-unpleasure principle, pleasure principle |
| Type of | principle |
Examples of pleasure-pain principle
pleasure-pain principle
It is ecstasy and torture, a culinary expression of the pleasure-pain principle.
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Hedonism posits that the principle ethic is maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.
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Bentham saw pain and pleasure as objective phenomena, and defined utilitarianism on that principle.
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Yet the result of transgressing the pleasure principle, according to Lacan, is not more pleasure but pain, since there is only a certain amount of pleasure that the subject can bear.
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