| 单词 | pleasure principle |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspleasure principle pleasure principle n. determination of behaviour by the seeking of pleasure; (Psychoanalysis) the principle that the instinctive drive to seek pleasure and avoid or release unpleasurable tension is a basic motivating force in human life; (also) the theory which proposes this; cf. reality principle n. at reality n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > study of emotions > pain or pleasure in mental state > [noun] > drive to pleasure pleasure principle1856 pleasure–unpleasure principle1921 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Freud > [noun] > search for pleasure pleasure principle1856 1856 P. E. Dove Theory of Human Progression ix. 439 Society was constructed on the pleasure principle. Barbarous pleasures grew first, then refined pleasures, till at last the very corruption of manners necessitated a change. 1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 23 134 The sex impulses find no outlet before puberty. Until that time they remain under the control of the subconscious (pleasure principle). 1968 A. Laski Keeper xi. 133 Ralph's whole working life had been devoted to the pleasure principle. 1991 J. Rifkin Biosphere Politics v. xlii. 320 The ‘pleasure principle’ as Freud referred to it, is challenged by the ‘reality principle’. < as lemmas |
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