1. (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
   - pleasure principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle

Type of: principle

• telephone company
• telephone conversation
• telephone cord
• telephone dial
• telephone directory
• telephone exchange
• telephone extension
• telephone interview
• telephone jack
• telephone kiosk
• telephone line
• telephone message
• telephone number
• telephone operator
• telephone order
• telephone plug
• telephone pole
• telephone receiver
• telephone service
• telephone set
• telephone system
• telephone unit
• telephone wire
• telephoner
• telephonic