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Pleasure Principle

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(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id

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pleasure-pain principlepleasure-unpleasure principle
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Pleasure Principles
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Pleasure Principle's
pluralpossessive
Pleasure Principles'

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(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id

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