pleasure principle
Example Sentences
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The creation is yet another example of the restaurant’s pleasure principle at work, and how apt to enjoy it while Cheryl Lynn is singing “Got to Be Real.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022
It won’t if we adopt a Mozartean pleasure principle that is substantive, not superficial.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2021
These are cinephile movies that venerate the form but refuse to let their intelligence obviate the pleasure principle.
From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2018
Strangely, the film’s modest dramatic virtues work actively against the pleasure principle and diminish the film’s strongest elements.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2015
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
