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In Freudian theory, the fulfillment of a wish is an aspiration, theme, or, one might even say, motor principle, of unconscious formations like dreams, hysterical symptoms, and fantasies. In these formations an unconscious, infantile sexual wish is expressed and fulfilled in imagination in a more or less disguised way. From this point of view, the fulfillment in question is neither total nor definitive, but unique and dynamic.
Freud set forth his theory of wish fulfillment in chapter 3 of ''The Interpretation of Dreams'' (1900a), though...
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Freud set forth his theory of wish fulfillment in chapter 3 of ''The Interpretation of Dreams'' (1900a), though...
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Sigmund Freud]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
