单词 | rescue fantasy |
释义 | > as lemmasrescue fantasy rescue fantasy n. [after German Rettungsphantasie ( S. Freud in Jahrbuch für Psychoanalytische und Psychopathologische Forschungen (1910) 2 396)] originally Psychoanalysis a subconscious belief or fantasy centring on rescue, esp. a belief that one is needed or able to save another person from something, posited as a motive for certain actions or choices. ΚΠ 1918 Psychoanalytic Rev. 5 109 The son shows his gratitude by wishing to have a son through his mother who is like himself; in other words, in the rescue fantasy he identifies himself with the father. 1946 E. Bergler Unhappy Marriage & Divorce vi. 144 The fourth qualification to which their love is subject is the ‘rescue-fantasy’. They must be convinced that the woman needs them, and without them would lose all moral support and very likely sink into a deplorable state. 2008 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 30 Nov. 46 We have this rescue fantasy about abused children but many have no idea they need to be saved. < as lemmas |
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