wish fulfilment

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

Words nearby wish fulfilment

wiseman, wisenheimer, wisent, wish, wish fulfillment, wish fulfilment, wish list, wish on, wish-wash, wishbone, wishbone boom

Example sentences from the Web for wish fulfilment

I have alluded to his symbolizing the wish-fulfilment of the inarticulate, and the inarticulate are many.

Behind the Mirrors |Clinton W. Gilbert
He remarks on this that the second figure sounds like a rectification in contrast with the wish-fulfilment of the first.

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology |C. G. Jung
As the patient remarked, 315 seems thus a wish-fulfilment, 342 on the other hand a rectification.

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology |C. G. Jung
Other dreams of wish-fulfilment appear at first glance either indifferent or absurd.

Psychoanalysis |Andr Tridon

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

Psychoanalysis |Andr Tridon

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wish fulfilment

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Example sentences from the Web for wish fulfilment