wish fulfilment

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noun

(in Freudian psychology) any successful attempt to fulfil a wish stemming from the unconscious mind, whether in fact, in fantasy, or by such disguised means as sublimation See also pleasure principle

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A notebook is a place of wish fulfilment, and a place for vengeance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Meanwhile, nearby Dunfermline houses the UK's biggest Amazon "wish fulfilment centre".

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2022

It's wish fulfilment but of the simplest kind: longing for connection, a sort of Nancy Meyers for friends.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021

Hollywood, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s soapy, gleefully ahistorical Netflix miniseries about postwar Hollywood, is not so much a work of historical fiction as it is an exercise in wish fulfilment.

From Slate ● May 1, 2020

We see here plainly that the kernel of the supposed dream belonging to the night wandering is wish fulfilment, desire for glory 101and the hand of the beloved.

From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by J. Sadger

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