Pleasure Principle

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
  • The Pleasure Principle (Le Principe du Plaisir), a painting by RenĂ© Magritte

Famous quotes containing the words pleasure and/or principle:

    “When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.”
    —Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

    “The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.”
    —Tacitus (c. 55–117)