wish fulfillment

THESAURUS

wish fulfillment

alienation, ardor, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, compensation, concupiscence, curiosity, decompensation, defense mechanism, dereism, dereistic thinking, desideration, desire, displacement, dissociation, dreamery, drive, eagerness, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, fancy, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, flight of fancy, hope, horme, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, imaginative exercise, impracticality, intellectual curiosity, isolation, libido, lust for learning, mind, need, negativism, overcompensation, passion, play of fancy, pleasure, pleasure principle, projection, psychotaxis, quixotism, quixotry, rationalization, resistance, romance, romanticism, sexual desire, sociological adjustive reactions, sublimation, substitution, thirst for knowledge, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, urge, utopianism, visionariness, want, wanting, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal