According to Freud, which is an example of wish fulfillment?

• A. Dreams
• B. Anxiety
• C. Repression
• D. Sublimation

Answer: (A)

Dreams embody the idea of wish fulfillment in Freud’s theory. He argued that the unconscious holds desires we can’t satisfy in waking life, especially forbidden or anxiety-inducing ones. In dreaming, those wishes surface in a disguised, symbolic form that lets the psyche satisfy them while keeping ego distress in check. The actual dream you remember is the manifest content, but the hidden meaning—the latent content—reveals the underlying wish being fulfilled. So dreams are the classic example Freud used to illustrate wishes being fulfilled.

Anxiety isn’t itself a fulfillment; it signals threats or conflicts. Repression is the defense process that pushes wishes out of conscious awareness, and sublimation redirects impulses into acceptable outlets rather than fulfilling the original wish.