wish fulfilment

wish fulfilment

English

Etymology

From wish + fulfilment, translating German Wunscherfüllung.

Noun

wish fulfilment (countable and uncountable, plural wish fulfilments)

1. 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, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 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.