Wunscherfüllung

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German

Etymology

From Wunsch +‎ Erfüllung. Probably coined by Sigmund Freud in 1899.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: Wunsch‧er‧fül‧lung

Noun

Wunscherfüllung f (genitive Wunscherfüllung, plural Wunscherfüllungen)

  1. wish fulfilment

Declension

References

  1. ^ Freud, Sigmund (1899) Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams]‎ (in German):Der Traum stellt einen gewissen Sachverhalt so dar, wie ich ihn wünschen möchte; sein Inhalt ist also eine Wunscherfüllung, sein Motiv ein Wunsch. [...] Nach vollendeter Deutungsarbeit lässt sich der Traum als eine Wunscherfüllung erkennen.The dream represents a certain condition of affairs as I should wish it to be; the content of the dream is thus the fulfilment of a wish; its motive is a wish. When the work of interpretation has been completed the dream may be recognised as the fulfilment of a wish.

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