# Pleasure principle

- Id: `pleasure_principle`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/pleasure-principle/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `2f11cc01434c4c6b42f051fc768aeab4c72bf6771c92bdb27b08b614734529c8`

## Summary

The pleasure principle describes the tendency of the psychical apparatus to reduce tension and seek satisfaction under the constraints of reality and other processes.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:jung.psychology_of_the_unconscious:section-0200",
    "passage:freud.traumdeutung:section-0553",
    "passage:freud.totem_und_tabu:section-0161"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "lustprinzip",
    "pleasure principle",
    "principe de plaisir"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 7,
    "passages": 1288,
    "thinkers": 2,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "freud.jenseits_lustprinzips",
        "title": "Beyond the Pleasure Principle",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/jenseits-lustprinzips/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.der_witz",
        "title": "Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/der-witz/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.traumdeutung",
        "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/traumdeutung/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.psychopathologie_alltagslebens",
        "title": "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/psychopathologie-alltagslebens/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.drei_abhandlungen",
        "title": "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/drei-abhandlungen/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.totem_und_tabu",
        "title": "Totem and Taboo",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/totem-und-tabu/"
    },
    {
        "id": "jung.psychology_of_the_unconscious",
        "title": "Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the Libido",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychology-of-the-unconscious/"
    }
]
```