wishfulfillment

DH: For us, it was really wishfulfillment in writing this show, because we live inL.A., obviously.

Buzzine » ‘The Middle’ Interviews 2009

Atlas Shrugged is a wishfulfillment fantasy in which heroes drawn from imagination defeat villains drawn from real life.

The Volokh Conspiracy » An Ayn Rand First:(?): 2007

The stranger was scarcely a boy, as Esther had definitely termed him, but Greenberg reasoned that her term was merely wishfulfillment, and he jauntily ran up behind him.

Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

The stranger was scarcely a boy, as Esther had definitely termed him, but Greenberg reasoned that her term was merely wishfulfillment, and he jauntily ran up behind him.

Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

One fact which cannot be too emphatically stated, however, is that but for Freud's wishfulfillment theory of dreams, neither Jung's "energic theory," nor Adler's theory of "organ inferiority and compensation," nor Kempf's "dynamic mechanism" might have been formulated.

Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897

And even though many will argue with me, I strongly suspect that the very fact that urban fantasy in general has a lot of writers and protagonists who are not straight white men is one of the main reasons for the ridicule and outright scorn heaped on the genre “It’s basically just female wishfulfillment fantasy and supernatural porn”.

The new urban fantasy. Same as the old urban fantasy? 2009

EI: For the actresses: there’s a certain amount of wishfulfillment in being able to play witches,particularly if they’re good witches.

Buzzine » ‘Eastwick’ Interviews 2009