pleasure principle(n = noun.cognition) pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle - (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality;
is a kind of principle
Antonym: reality principle

accounting principle, archimedes' principle, basic principle, bitter principle, exclusion principle, first principle, fundamental principle, gestalt principle of organization, gold of pleasure, guiding principle, huygens' principle of superposition, in principle, indeterminacy principle, judicial principle, lady of pleasure, le chatelier principle, le chatelier's principle, le chatelier-braun principle, legal principle, life principle, localisation principle, localization principle, mass-action principle, moral principle, pauli exclusion principle, pleasure, pleasure boat, pleasure craft, pleasure ground, pleasure seeker, pleasure seeking, pleasure trip, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle, principle, principle of equivalence, principle of liquid displacement, principle of parsimony, principle of relativity, principle of superposition, reality principle, sexual pleasure, superposition principle, uncertainty principle, vital principle, working principle