PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Sigmund Freud coined the term (Wunscherfüllung) in 1900 in an early text titled The Interpretation of Dreams. It corresponds to a core principle of Freud’s Dream Theory. According to Freud, wish fulfillment occurs when unconscious desires are repressed by the ego and superego.

Detailed explanation-2: -Freud’s most well-known theory, wish fulfillment, is the idea that when wishes can’t or won’t be fulfilled in our waking lives, they are carried out in dreams. Even anxious or punishing dreams have their roots in wish fulfillment, according to Freud.

Detailed explanation-3: -Freud’s method for interpreting dreams was very simple. He called this method free association. The method of free association led Freud to the conclusion that dreams are the disguised fulfilments of repressed infantile wishes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Expectation fulfillment theory posits that dreaming serves to discharge emotional arousals (however minor) that haven’t been expressed during the day. This practice frees up space in the brain to deal with the emotional arousals of the next day and allows instinctive urges to stay intact.