wish fulfilment
English edit
Etymology edit
From wish + fulfilment, translating German Wunscherfüllung.
Noun edit
wish fulfilment (countable and uncountable, plural wish fulfilments)
- The imagined satisfying of a wish or desire, especially one which was unconscious or not recognised by the holder; the expression of such fulfilment in a dream, fantasy etc.
- 1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 95:
- The dream represents a certain state of affairs as being as I would wish it to be: its content is thus a wish-fulfilment, its motive a wish.