(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality
双语例句
FREUD ARGUED THAT the pleasure principle gave expression to primitive, animal drives. 佛洛伊德认为,快乐原则表达出原始的动物驱力。
This obscene operation of superego transgresses the pleasure principle but it really misses the desire out beyond the pleasure principle. 超我这种邪淫的作为虽然逾越了快乐原则,但并没有超出快乐原则而碰触到欲望。