wish fulfillment

gratification of desires.

Psychoanalysis. the drive to free oneself from tension caused by instinctual needs, as sex.

Origin of wish fulfillment

First recorded in 1905–10

Cain might just be for conservatives what Barack Obama was for liberals in 2008—a kind of wish-fulfillment candidate.

Romney’s Worst Nightmare |Michael Tomasky |October 14, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
It is in fact the wish-fulfillment that has already induced us to separate dreams into two groups.

Dream Psychology |Sigmund Freud
Here, I say, in these two or three instances, we have the "wish-fulfillment" in its clearest form.

The Ordeal of Mark Twain |Van Wyck Brooks
So this is the second wish-fulfillment, but the wish is that of the husband.

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis |Sigmund Freud

On the whole, then, I have made no concessions to your protestation against the theory of wish-fulfillment.

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis |Sigmund Freud
That a psychic process developing anxiety may still be a wish-fulfillment has long ceased to impress us as a contradiction.

Dream Psychology |Sigmund Freud

wish fulfillment

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In psychoanalytic theory, the satisfaction of a desire, need, or impulse through a dream or other exercise of the imagination.