Pleasure principle

for freud the pleasure principle means the elimination of excitation"Todd McGowan 2.29K subscribers" "5,133 views. May 8, 2020." https://youtu.be/viYtgC5cL0EIn the psychology which is founded on psycho-analysis we have become accustomed to taking as our  starting-point the unconscious mental processes, with the peculiarities of which we have become acquainted through analysis. We consider these to be the older, primary processes, the residues of a phase of development  in which they were the only kind of mental process. The governing purpose obeyed by these primary processes is easy to recognize; it is described as the pleasure-unpleasure [Lust-Unlust] principle, or more shortly the  pleasure principle. These processes strive towards gaining pleasure; psychical activity draws back from any event which might arouse unpleasure. (Here we have repression.) Our dreams at night and our waking tendency to  tear ourselves away from distressing impressions are remnants of the dominance of this principle and proofs of its power. [Freud. 1911]
== Rhizomata ==
Pleasure; Principle; Psychoanalysis
Death drive