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ˈwish-fulfilment
[tr. G. wunscherfüllung (S. Freud Die Traumdeutung (1900) i. 64).]
The imaginary fulfilment of acknowledged or unconscious wishes in dreams and fantasies; a dream or other event or object in which the fulfilment of a wish is given (usu. imaginary or symbolic) expression.
[1901H. Ellis in Jrnl. Mental Sci. XLVII. 370 The author [sc. Freud] points out that..we may with much more reason regard them [sc. dreams] as the protectors of sleep, willing us to repose with an imagined fulfilment of our wishes. ]1908Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. III. 237 This is a hyperbolic realization of his reveries, corresponding to the wish-fulfilment of the normal dream. 1916A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Wit & its Relation to Unconscious vi. 250 Wider reading circles have contented themselves to reduce the contents [of The Interpretation of Dreams]..to a catchword, ‘Wish fulfilment’—a term easily remembered and easily abused. 1928C. H. Dodd Authority of Bible iii. 66 Behind the song lies..a longing for the down⁓fall of an implacable enemy, which finds in the picture of disaster a ‘wish-fulfilment’. 1939D. Cecil Young Melbourne iv. 106 Living wholly in a wish-fulfilment world of her own creation, she insisted it was the real one. 1953A. Huxley Let. 31 Oct. (1969) 687 The jewelled palaces are partly, no doubt, wish fulfilments—the opposite of everyday experience. 1956E. L. Mascall Christian Theol. & Natural Science vi. 217 More careful examination would enable us to sift out those beliefs which had a rational justification for those which were mere wish-fulfilments. 1958E. A. Armstrong Folklore of Birds iii. 55 It is a man's wish-fulfilment story, as Cinderella is a woman's. 1958Punch 25 June 852/2 She is gentle, charming, childlike, submissive, a young man's wish-fulfilment. 1978M. Levey Case of Walter Pater xiv. 198 All Pater's dreams, nightmares as well as wish⁓fulfilments, find expression here.
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1922R. S. Woodworth Psychol. xix. 501 They [sc. dreams] are ‘wish-fulfilling’. 1945D. L. Moore Vulgar Heart i. 14 The wish-fulfilling assumption that such honours will be deserved. 1976Listener 8 Apr. 447/3 A serenity that accepts as self-evident truth what we reject as wish-fulfilling illusion. |