sensorium commune

a hypothetical location in the brain formerly held to be the seat of sensation in humans and nonhuman animals and the site for the operations of the sensus communis. Also called sensorium.

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February 20th 2025

principle of constancy

in classical psychoanalytic theory, the idea that all mental processes tend toward a state of equilibrium and the stability of the inorganic state. Also called constancy law; law of constancy. See also death instinct; nirvana principle.