pleasure principle
Example Sentences
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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
When it comes to eating, I believe in Freud’s pleasure principle: I avoid all pain.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2019
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
