wish fulfilment

noun

1. (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

Example Sentences

Those dreams were both a warning and a wish-fulfilment (painless extraction).

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Here is another example in which the wish fulfilment is cleverly concealed.

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We get our clue to the dream as being a wish fulfilment by taking the dreams of children.

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Other dreams of wish-fulfilment appear at first glance either indifferent or absurd.

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There is no doubt but some painful dreams are, without any symbolism or distortion of any kind, dreams of obvious wish-fulfilment.

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