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wish fulfillment

–noun
1. gratification of desires.
2. Psychoanalysis. the drive to free oneself from tension caused by instinctual needs, as sex.

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1905–10
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Main Entry: wish–ful·fill·ment
Pronunciation: -m&nt
Function: noun
: the gratification of a desire especially symbolically (as indreams, daydreams, or neurotic symptoms)
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wish fulfillment n.
In psychoanalytic theory, the satisfaction of a desire, a need, or an impulse through a dream or other exercise of the imagination.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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