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Together with the [[pleasure principle]], the [[reality principle]] is, according to [[Freud]], one of the two principles governing the workings of the [[psyche]].
The [[reality principle]] modifies the [[pleasure principle]] by regulating the instinctive search for [[pleasure]].
Under its influence, the search for [[pleasure]] ceases to be immediate as momentary and uncertain pleasures are renounced in order to gain a more assured [[pleasure]] at a later stage (deferred gratification).
The quest for [[pleasure]] is thus modified so as to make it conform to the conditions imposed by external realities.
The religious doctrine which holds that those who renounce earthly pleasures can expect to be rewarded in the afterlife is viewed by [[Freud] as a [[projection]] of the [[reality principle]].
[[Real]]ity principle (principe de rÈalitÈ) According to Freud, the
