Philosophical concept
Pleasure principle
The pleasure principle describes the tendency of the psychical apparatus to reduce tension and seek satisfaction under the constraints of reality and other processes.
- Works
- 7
- Passages
- 1,288
- Thinkers
- 2
- Traditions
- 1
Understand uses of the concept
The pleasure principle describes the tendency of the psychical apparatus to reduce tension and seek satisfaction under the constraints of reality and other processes.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,288 passages across 7 works, including Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, The Interpretation of Dreams. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: lustprinzip, pleasure principle, principe de plaisir
Works where the concept is identified
- Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleSigmund Freud · 60 passages
- Jokes and Their Relation to the UnconsciousSigmund Freud · 224 passages
- The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 630 passages
- The Psychopathology of Everyday LifeSigmund Freud · 84 passages
- Three Essays on the Theory of SexualitySigmund Freud · 109 passages
- Totem and TabooSigmund Freud · 180 passages
- Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the LibidoCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages