wish-fulfilmentn.
/ˈwɪʃfᵿlˌfɪlm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈwɪʃfə(l)ˌfɪlmənt/ 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 (usually imaginary or symbolic) expression.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > other specific types
gulf-dream1813
dreamlet1828
wet dream1851
dream sequence1893
wish-fulfilment1908
war dream1918
wish-dream1934
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun] > fulfilling wishes
wish-fulfilment1908
1901 H. Ellis in Jrnl. Mental Sci. 47 370 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.]
1908 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 3 237 This is a hyperbolic realization of his reveries, corresponding to the wish-fulfilment of the normal dream.
1916 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Wit & its Relation to Unconsc. 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.
1928 C. 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’.
1939 D. Cecil Young Melbourne iv. 106 Living wholly in a wish-fulfilment world of her own creation, she insisted it was the real one.
1953 A. Huxley Let. 31 Oct. (1969) 687 The jewelled palaces are partly, no doubt, wish fulfilments—the opposite of everyday experience.
1956 E. L. Mascall Christian Theol. & Nat. Sci. 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.
1958 E. A. Armstrong Folklore of Birds iii. 55 It is a man's wish-fulfilment story, as Cinderella is a woman's.
1958 Punch 25 June 852/2 She is gentle, charming, childlike, submissive, a young man's wish-fulfilment.
1978 M. Levey Case of Walter Pater xiv. 198 All Pater's dreams, nightmares as well as wish~fulfilments, find expression here.
Derivatives
ˈwish-fulfilling adj.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [adjective] > effecting wish-fulfilment
wish-fulfilling1922
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [adjective] > fulfilling wishes
wish-fulfilling1922
1922 R. S. Woodworth Psychol. xix. 501 They [sc. dreams] are ‘wish-fulfilling’.
1945 D. L. Moore Vulgar Heart i. 14 The wish-fulfilling assumption that such honours will be deserved.
1976 Listener 8 Apr. 447/3 A serenity that accepts as self-evident truth what we reject as wish-fulfilling illusion.
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