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Definition of Reality principle

1. Noun. (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego; the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it.

Medical Definition of Reality principle

1. The concept that the pleasure principle in personality development is modified by the demands of external reality; the principle or force that compels the growing child to adapt to the demands of external reality. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Reality principle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psycho-analysis: A Brief Account of the Freudian Theory by Barbara Low (1920)
"The Pleasure-Principle and the Reality-Principle. The Egocentric Impulses and the Social Impulses. IN the previous chapter it was noted that the Psyche was ..."

2. Psycho-analysis: A Brief Account of the Freudian Theory by Barbara Low (1920)
"The Pleasure-Principle and the Reality-Principle. The Egocentric Impulses and the Social Impulses. IN the previous chapter it was noted that the Psyche was ..."

3. Man's Unconscious Spirit; the Psychoanalysis of Spiritism by Wilfrid Lay (1921)
"According to the reality principle all true scientific research proceeds, ... reality principle Briefly stated the pleasure-pain principle is that according ..."

4. Morbid Fears and Compulsions: Their Psychology and Psychoanalytic Treatment by Horace Westlake Frink (1918)
"... developed form by reasonings, judgments and various sorts of intellectual work, takes place in accordance with what Freud calls the reality principle. ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"This is a clear expression of the emphasis I place on the reality principle. The two main principles here mentioned are after all only an expression of the ..."

6. Man's Unconscious Spirit; the Psychoanalysis of Spiritism by Wilfrid Lay (1921)
"According to the reality principle all true scientific research proceeds, ... reality principle Briefly stated the pleasure-pain principle is that according ..."

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