pleasure principle

Example Sentences

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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

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

In "SPQR," Beard's magisterial new history, the pleasure principle looms as a large part of the Roman character and perhaps one of the reasons for its continual allure.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 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