Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pleasure-pain_principle

1 sense of pleasure-pain principle

Sense 1
pleasure principle, 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)
       => principle -- (a basic truth or law or assumption; "the principles of democracy")