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Detailed explanation-1: -Freud referred to Eros as life instinct, which he called libidinal energy. In identifying the “pleasure principle, ” he saw man as a pleasure-seeking animal, whose “entire psychical activity is bent on procuring pleasure and avoiding pain”7 (Brown, 1959). In fact, we are built for pleasure. It is our birthright.

Detailed explanation-2: -The pain pleasure principle, developed by Sigmund Freud, suggests that peo-ple make choices to avoid or decrease pain or make choices that create or increase pleasure. The pain pleasure principle is the core of all the decisions we make. Be-liefs, values, actions and decisions are built upon this principle.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Freudian psychology and psychoanalysis, the reality principle (German: Realitätsprinzip) is the ability of the mind to assess the reality of the external world, and to act upon it accordingly, as opposed to acting on the pleasure principle.

Detailed explanation-4: -The id is driven by the pleasure principle, which strives for immediate gratification of all desires, wants, and needs.1 If these needs are not satisfied immediately, the result is a state of anxiety or tension.

Detailed explanation-5: -Like the id, the ego seeks pleasure (i.e., tension reduction) and avoids pain, but unlike the id, the ego is concerned with devising a realistic strategy to obtain pleasure. The ego has no concept of right or wrong; something is good simply if it achieves its end of satisfying without causing harm to itself or the id.