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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wish fulfilment

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

Sleep walking as a method of wish fulfilment evidently lies close to the dream life, which has become known through psychoanalysis.

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

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