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Definition of pleasure-pain principle - 1 dictionary result
pleasure-pain principle

noun
(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality [syn: pleasure principle] [ant: reality principle
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