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Bobbi Rohwer & Kenzie Bell
Pleasure Principle Bobbi Rohwer & Kenzie Bell
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Pleasure Principle Defined as, “Freud’s psychoanalytic theory; governed by the motivation of the Id, an inborn tendency to avoid all pain and seek only pleasure by the immediate reduction of tension and obtaining instant gratification.”
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Fotopoulou His patient suffered amnesia due to a tumor removal from the frontal lobe He had no recollection of the surgery even after 12 consecutive days of 50-minute visits with Fotopoulou Confabulated (i.e. who the doctor was, why he had a scar on his head) Author claimed the confabulations were of wishful thinking and generated by the Pleasure Principle
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Frontal Limbic System Damage to this region impairs cognitive control mechanisms In other words, the brain is no longer able to produce “reality checks”, without it, it only confabulates
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