Wish fulfillment

Wish fulfillment in psychology is the satisfaction of a desire through such involuntary thought processes such as dreams, daydreams, and neurotic symptoms. In Freudian psychoanalysis, it is when desires of the unconscious are unacceptable to the ego and superego because of feeling of guilt or societal or cultural restrictions such as taboos, giving rise to dreams. For Sigmund Freud, dreams result from attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort, whether something recent or something from the recesses of the past. In the ethics of belief, wish fulfillment can come out as a bad faith self delusion.