What Is the Pleasure Principle?

Freud believes that the basic impetus for the entire spiritual organ comes from the unsatisfied desire or the calming excitementa desire to release the resulting unsatisfied (unpleasant) feeling, so as to relieve tension and get happiness.

Freud believes that the basic impetus for the entire spiritual organ comes from the unsatisfied desire or the calming excitementa desire to release the resulting unsatisfied (unpleasant) feeling, so as to relieve tension and get happiness.
Chinese name
Happiness principle
Applied discipline
psychology

Happy Principles Background

Many philosophers and psychologists have long discovered that human behavior is largely caused by a tendency to avoid pleasure.

Definition of happiness principle

Freud incorporated this theory into his unconscious theory, but changed its focus. He said that the basic impetus for the whole spiritual organs comes from the unsatisfied desire or the unsettled excitementa desire to release the resulting unsatisfied (unpleasant) feeling, so as to relieve tension and get happiness. In the early days, Freud called it the "unhappiness principle", but later renamed it the "happiness principle." This label later became part of the psychology vocabulary.

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