wish fulfillment

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Mr. Kimmel also hints at the wish fulfillment at the heart of the Jewish-penned superhero tales: As he observes, within their pages, “nerdy outsiders end up exhibiting enviable superpowers.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

“As much as this isn’t wish fulfillment in the classic sense of a glamorous Manhattan apartment, cosmopolitans every night — it’s wish fulfillment because they’re really happy there,” Shaw said of the characters.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

“Stringed Instruments” was a work that left the audience without a closing moment of wish fulfillment.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025

Seeing an evil man get what he deserves may provide fleeting wish fulfillment, but that doesn't make “Companion” an inherently feminist text.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2025

In the form of the wish fulfillment they show us what wish impulses have been suppressed, and to what objects the libido, withdrawn from the ego, has been attached.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund