pleasure principle

instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoiding of pain in order to satisfy biological and psychological needs
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pleasure principle

Summary

pleasure principle is a notion[1]. It draws 235 Wikipedia views per month (notion category, ranking #7 of 25).[2]

Key Facts

  • pleasure principle is credited with the discovery of Sigmund Freud[3].
  • pleasure principle's instance of is recorded as notion[4].
  • pleasure principle's GND ID is recorded as 4168338-9[5].
  • pleasure principle's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[6].
  • pleasure principle's opposite of is recorded as reality principle[7].
  • pleasure principle's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D010990[8].
  • pleasure principle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08mvqg[9].
  • pleasure principle's MeSH tree code is recorded as F02.739.794.746[10].
  • pleasure principle's depicted by is recorded as The Pleasure Principle[11].
  • pleasure principle's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/pleasure-principle[12].
  • pleasure principle's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/12tb7pzhq[13].
  • pleasure principle's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0032217[14].
  • pleasure principle's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as principe-de-plaisir[15].
  • pleasure principle's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 32333365[16].
  • pleasure principle's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C32333365[17].
  • pleasure principle's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as psychology/pleasure-principle[18].
  • pleasure principle's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as nursing-and-health-professions/pleasure-principle[19].
  • pleasure principle's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as medicine-and-dentistry/pleasure-principle[20].
  • pleasure principle's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as c82cx383[21].

Body

Geography

pleasure principle's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[6].

Designation and Status

pleasure principle's instance of is recorded as notion[4].

Why It Matters

pleasure principle draws 235 Wikipedia views per month (notion category, ranking #7 of 25).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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