Pleasure-Pain Principle

Known as: Pleasure Pain Principle, Pleasure-Pain Principles, Principle, Pleasure-Pain

The psychoanalytic concept that man instinctively seeks to avoid pain and discomfort and strives for gratification and pleasure.

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2016

2015

Under what conditions do sexual pleasure and desire get addressed in news coverage of sexual health issues like female genital…

2015

The four pleasures; a feeling of happy satisfaction, enjoyment, entertainment and sensorial gratification. "What's your pleasure…

2009

This project aligns Ken Kesey’s work as a novelist with his work as a counter-cultural leader in the Sixties. In particular…

2007

One could not ask for a better travel companion for what is surely one of the most beautiful train routes in the world — from…

2002

The author posits that a dynamic of sadomasochistic pleasure is at work in contempo-rary music. The rise both of compositions…

2002

On occasion, adult patients report a dream in which they are very young, or they remember a dream from early childhood, or they…

2001

The beauty is universal part of the human experience. It has been shown that its perception brins pleasure, while increasing…

1987

1955

R ECREATION-this is a word which embraces our many an var ed leisure hour activities. It encompasses trips to movies after a day…