wish fulfillment

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Much of her experience with the series has been wish fulfillment, partly because she had manifested working with Sennott years before “I Love LA” was in development, but mostly because she had dreamed of being an actor since she was a kid.

From Los Angeles Times

Villanelle’s behavior contained “a degree of wish fulfillment,” notes Gentle.

From Los Angeles Times

As much as this procession of bare midriffs was a form of immediate wish fulfillment in a time of isolation, uncertainty and protective layers, it was, too, an invocation for the future — an attempt to manifest, by exposing one of our most defenseless, most provocative zones, a future in which we might once again let our guards down and see our bodies not as vessels for disease or targets for injustice but as sources of power.

From New York Times

Matafeo, who co-wrote episodes with Alice Snedden and Nic Sampson, wanted “Starstruck” to be a “combination of wish fulfillment, fantasy stuff and also realistic dialogue.”

From New York Times

Many saw that macabre wish fulfillment as a red flag.

From Salon