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  2. Wish fulfillment - Wikipedia

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    Wish fulfillment is the satisfaction of a desire through an involuntary thought process. It can occur in dreams or in daydreams, in the symptoms of neurosis, or in the hallucinations of psychosis. This satisfaction is often indirect and requires interpretation to recognize. Sigmund Freud coined the term (Wunscherfüllung) in 1900 in an early ...

  3. The Interpretation of Dreams - Wikipedia

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    Psychoanalysis. The Interpretation of Dreams (German: Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud revised the book at least eight ...

  4. Dream interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Freud considered that the experience of anxiety dreams and nightmares was the result of failures in the dream-work: rather than contradicting the "wish-fulfillment" theory, such phenomena demonstrated how the ego reacted to the awareness of repressed wishes that were too powerful and insufficiently disguised. Traumatic dreams (where the dream ...

  5. Irma's injection - Wikipedia

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    Irma's injection. " Irma's injection " is the name given to the dream that Sigmund Freud dreamt on the night of July 23, 1895, and that he subsequently analyzed to arrive at his theory that dreams are wish fulfillments. [1] He described his ideas on dream theory and provided his analysis of the dream, alongside other dreams from case studies ...

  6. Psychoanalytic dream interpretation - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Psychoanalytic dream interpretation is a subdivision of dream interpretation as well as a subdivision of psychoanalysis pioneered by Sigmund Freud in the early 20th century. Psychoanalytic dream interpretation is the process of explaining the meaning of the way the unconscious thoughts and emotions are processed in the mind during sleep.

  7. Dream - Wikipedia

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    Dream. A painting depicting Daniel O'Connell dreaming of a confrontation with George IV, shown inside a thought bubble. A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. [1] Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, [2] and each dream lasts ...

  8. The Future of an Illusion - Wikipedia

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    Print. ISBN. 978-0-393-00831-9. OCLC. 20479722. The Future of an Illusion (German: Die Zukunft einer Illusion) is a 1927 work by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which Freud discusses religion's origins, development, and its future. He provides a psychoanalysis of religion as a false belief system.

  9. Fantasy (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Isaacs however claimed that "Freud's 'hallucinatory wish-fulfilment' and his 'introjection' and 'projection' are the basis of the fantasy life," [16] and how far unconscious fantasy was a genuine development of Freud's ideas, how far it represented the formation of a new psychoanalytic paradigm, is perhaps the key question of the controversial ...