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pleasure principle

Psychoanalysis the automatic adjustment of the mental activity to secure pleasure, or gratification, and avoid pain, or unpleasantness

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In psychoanalysis, the tendency or drive to achieve pleasure and avoid pain as the chief motivating force in behavior.

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