unpleasure
English
Etymology
From un- + pleasure.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ʌnˈplɛʒə/
Noun
unpleasure (uncountable)
- (rare) Unpleasantness; displeasure.
- (psychology) A sense of internal discomfort opposed to pleasure, produced by impeded impulses from the ego.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 182:
- The life of the psyche also has at its disposal wishes whose fulfilment arouses unpleasure [transl. Unlust] – which seems a contradiction, but can be explained if we take into account the presence of the two psychical agencies and the censorship prevailing between them.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 182: