pleasure principle

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pleasure principle

▶noun Psychoanalysis the instinctive drive to seek pleasure and avoid pain, expressed by the id as a basic motivating force which reduces psychic tension.

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primary process

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