Pleasure principle Moderate

Pleasure principle has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Noun

(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality

pleasure principle pleasure-pain principle pleasure-unpleasure principle

The principle that human decisions and behavior are strongly motivated by the instinctual desire of the id, arising in infancy, to experience pleasure and avoid pain.