pleasure principle
Example Sentences
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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
But unlike Salonen’s moody Pollux and frenzied Castor, Partch applied the pleasure principle.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2019
His films lurch ahead from strong moment to strong moment, following the pleasure principle of his own fervent curiosity rather than the tracks of a plot line.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 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
