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The Reality principle (n.) is the constraint of what is experienced as possible within the symbolically constructed social space.
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The Reality principle (n.) educates us to leave the warm parental house for 'hostile life' — admitting one is no longer the centre of creation or the object of Providence's tender care.
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The Reality principle (n.) still seeks pleasure, but pleasure made safe by taking reality into account — postponed and diminished.
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The Reality principle (n.) is the mind agreeing to picture what is real, even when what is real is disagreeable.
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The Reality principle (n.) does not depose pleasure but safeguards it, giving up a pleasure now to make sure of one later.
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