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pleasure principle

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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