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As Wish I Was Here spilled out onto my eyeballs, I pondered why a movie that was so clearly just more of the fucking same would get made.
Initially, he speaks of dreams as "wish fulfillment".
Availability defines transfers as much as wish lists.
And they were hard to classify as wish fulfillments, even as elaborately concealed ones.
That's not the same as wish fulfillment, however; otherwise Jim would have his own art gallery, and Stephanie would have a housekeeper.
It's difficult, even when one watches Wiazemsky in Godard's Maoist film La Chinoise, not to see these women as wish fulfilments, Pygmalions to his Galatea.
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As wish-fulfilment goes, that's pretty tame.
The film – like most Hollywood movies – is determined to view dreams as wish-fulfilment.
Its central relationship, between an upper-middle-class man and his working-class lover, has been described as sentimental, its happy ending dismissed as wish-fulfilment.
Albert Einstein spent his entire adolescence under May's spell; Hermann Hesse, who called May's work "fiction as wish-fulfilment", was a life-long fan.
His studies contributed to theories about symbols and myths; in a major paper published in 1909, he connected myths with dreams and viewed both as wish-fulfillment fantasies.
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