pleasure-pain principle

NOUN
23 LETTERS · STARTS WITH P

pleasure-pain principle is a valid 23-letter word worth 31 points in Scrabble and 41 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
P3L1E1A1S1U1R1E1-0P3A1I1N1P3R1I1N1C3I1P3L1E1
3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 =31 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 62TRIPLE WORD → 93
MEANING

What does pleasure-pain principle mean?

NOUN · 1 SENSE
1

(psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality.

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