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RespectivelyHowever, the desire for immediate gratification vs. the deferral of [[subject]] soon discovers that gratification. Quite simply[[hallucination|hallucinating]] does not relieve his [[need]]s, the pleasure-principle drives one to seek pleasure and is thus [[forced]] "to avoid pain. However, as one grows up, one begins to learn [[form]] a conception of the need sometimes to endure pain and to defer gratification because of [[real]] circumstances in the exigencies and obstacles of reality: [[external]] [[world]]."An ego thus educated has become 'reasonable'; it no longer lets itself be governed by the pleasure principle<ref>[[Freud|Freud, but obeys Sigmund]]. "Formulations on the reality principle, which also at bottom seeks to obtain pleasure, but pleasure which is assured through taking account Two Principles of reality, even though it is pleasure postponed and diminished[[Mental]] Functioning." (Introductory Lectures 16SE XII. 215. 1911. p.357)219.</ref>
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==Sigmund Freud==
According to [[Freud]], the [[psyche]] is at first regulated entirely by the [[pleasure principle]], which seeks to [[experience]] [[satisfaction]] via a [[hallucinatory]] [[cathexis]] of a [[memory]] of [[time|prior]] [[satisfaction]].
A new "[[principle]] of mental functioning" is thus introduced (the "[[reality principle]]"), which modifies the [[pleasure principle]] and forces the [[subject]] to take more circuitous routes to [[satisfaction]].
Since, however, the ultimate aim of the [[reality principle]] is still the [[satisfaction]] of the [[drive]]s, it can be said that "the [[substitution]] of the reality principle for the [[pleasure]] principle implies no deposing of the pleasure principle, but only a safeguarding of it."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. "Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning." SE XII. 215. 1911. p.223</ref>
==Jacques Lacan==From early on, [[Lacan]] is opposed to what he calls "a naive conception of the reality principle."<ref>[[Lacan, Jacques]]. "Some reflections on the ego." ''Int. J. [[Psycho]]-[[Anal]].'' Vol 34. 1953. pp. 11</ref> That is, he rejects any account of [[human]] [[development]] based on an unproblematic [[notion]] of "[[reality]]" as an [[objective]] and [[self]]-evident given. He emphasizes [[Freud]]'s [[position]] that the [[reality principle]] is still ultimately in the serve of the [[pleasure principle]]. <blockquote>"The reality principle is a delayed [[action]] pleasure principle."<ref>{{S2}} p.60</ref></blockquote> [[Lacan]] thus challenges the [[idea]] that the [[subject]] has access to an infallible means of distinguishing between [[reality]] and [[fantasy]]. <blockquote>"[R]eality isn't just there so that we bump our heads up against the [[false]] paths along which the functioning of the pleasure principle leads us. In [[truth]], we make reality out of pleasure."<ref>{{S7}} p.225</ref></blockquote> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Desire]]* [[Fantasy]]||* [[Pleasure Principle]]* [[Reality]]{{Also}} ==References==<references /> [[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
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