In psychoanalytic theory, the principle that all organisms seek pleasure and avoid pain.
In psychoanalytic theory, the demanding manner by which the id operates, seeking immediate gratification of its needs.
In Freud's theory, the id's sole law, that of obtaining immediate satisfaction regardless of the circumstances and whatever the cost.
The principle that all beings seek pleasure and avoid pain.
(What Bentham called the principle of utility) an action is right if and only if the action produces a greater balance of pleasure over pain, or at least as much pleasure as pain, than any other action the agent could have performed. Pleasure is the principle of right action.
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
The strategy followed by the id, seeking too get pleasure and to avoid pain no matter what the external situations are, according to Freud's psychoanalytic theory.
the process by which the id seeks immediate gratification of its impulses. (443)
In Freud?s psychoanalytic theory, the strategy followed by the id, seeking to obtain pleasure and to avoid pain regardless of external circumstances. See also id, reality principle.
Pleasure Principle was Parlet's first album. It was released in February 1978 on the Casablanca label and produced by George Clinton and Bootsy Collins. The title song went to number 66 on the R&B charts.