pleasure principle

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The pleasure principle is a psychoanalytic concept describing the instinctive drive of the mind to seek immediate gratification of desires and avoid pain, especially prominent in early childhood and in the id.

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pleasure–pain principle	1

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Sigmund Freud → notableIdea → pleasure principle ⓘ

hedonic calculus → relatedConcept → pleasure principle ⓘ

this entity surface form: pleasure–pain principle