pleasure principle

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I wanted to edit this anthology with the pleasure principle.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021

I find myself increasingly committed to the pleasure principle — first formulated by John Dryden in 1668.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2020

The excessive, destabilising bit of the pleasure principle that’s channelling the death drive.

From The Guardian • Dec. 24, 2019

But unlike Salonen’s moody Pollux and frenzied Castor, Partch applied the pleasure principle.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 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