WordNet
n. (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality [syn: pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle] [ant: reality principle]
Wikipedia
Pleasure Principle is the debut album by the female P-Funk spin off group Parlet. The album was released in 1978 by Casablanca Records and was produced by P-Funk leader/producer George Clinton. Parlet consisted of Mallia Franklin, Debbie Wright, and Jeanette Washington. The album features heavy involvement from the P-Funk musical collective. The track "Cookie Jar" was originally written and recorded by Clarence "Fuzzy" Haskins.
In 1992, Pleasure Principle was reissued on CD in Japan by the Casablanca/ Polystar label, but quickly went out of print. On July 30th, 2013, Real Gone Music in the U.S. reissued both Pleasure Principle and Invasion Of The Booty Snatchers, featuring liner notes by former P-Funk minister of information Tom Vickers.
Pleasure Principle may refer to:
- Pleasure principle (psychology), a psychoanalytical term coined by Sigmund Freud
- Pleasure Principle (fashion), a New York-based fashion label designed by Diva Pittala and Adrian Cowen
- Pleasure Principle (album), a 1978 album by Parlet
- The Pleasure Principle (Treat album), 1986
- The Pleasure Principle (Gary Numan album), 1979
- "The Pleasure Principle" (song), a 1987 single by Janet Jackson
- The Pleasure Principle (film), a 1991 film starring Peter Firth
- "Pleasure Principle", a song from Jean Michel Jarre's 2003 album Geometry of Love
- "Pleasure Principle", a song by Sufjan Stevens
- The Pleasure Principle (Le Principe du Plaisir), a painting by René Magritte
Pleasure Principle is a fashion label founded in 2002 and is a collaboration between New York based artists/designers Adrian Cowen and Diva Pittala.
The inspiration for the collection was to bring a conceptual artistic approach to fashion design particularly to the area of sportswear. This initially took the form of developing garments from jersey that can be worn in multiple ways and yet are restrained in construction by the parameters of the simple t-shirt.
Graphic elements offer glimpses of an imagined identity, and often reflect the dark side of pleasure - hence the freudian 'pleasure principle' name.
The collection is today represented by some of the world's most forward thinking retailers such as Seven New York, Assembly New York, Luisa Via Roma, Corso Como Seoul, Harvey Nichols HK, La Garçonne, Maxfield, and Apartment in Berlin.
Usage examples of "pleasure principle".
He has been proclaimed as the great prophet of the pleasure principle, and yet also as the firm and rigid upholder of the reality principle.
As we get older, and life becomes more complicated, we start to modify the pleasure principle by what Freud called the 'reality principle.
There was something about Wally's parties, he reflected, Pleasure Principle or no.
He gave up on the pleasure principle and came to feel that there was another force—.
He gave up on the pleasure principle and came to feel that there was another force-a non-erotic primary aggression, he called it.
Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, beyond the pleasure principle?
When this compensation becomes an intrinsic part of the natural pleasure principle, there can be no gratification without pain or defilement.