Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

<p>Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams daydreams phantasy omnipotent thinking neurotic and some psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions art myth and religious illusions. The concept's theoretical exploration has been largely neglected within psychoanalysis since but contemporary philosophers have recognised it as providing an explanatory model for much of the kind of irrational behaviour so problematic for psychiatry social psychology and the philosophy of mind.</p> <p>　</p>