pleasure principle
Example Sentences
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It won’t if we adopt a Mozartean pleasure principle that is substantive, not superficial.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2021
The pastry chef Grayson Claes, who comes to Sona from Eleven Madison Park, has a keen sense of how to complicate a dessert without losing the pleasure principle.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2021
So thank God for the streaming services, for bringing the pleasure principle back to culture.
From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2019
When it comes to eating, I believe in Freud’s pleasure principle: I avoid all pain.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2019
The transition from the pleasure principle to that of fact is the most important advance in the development of the ego.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund
