wish-fulfilment (Wunscherfüllung) The essential premise of Freud, Sigmund’s theory of dream-interpretation. All dreams, he postulates, are the symbolic fulfilment of wishes. He later extended this thesis to the interpretation of posthumanism. The interpretation of dreams in psychoanalysis turns, then, on uncovering the wish (which isn’t always obvious) underpinning a particular dream. French psychoanalyst Lacan, Jacques offers a striking defence of this thesis in one of his early seminars: he asks his audience to consider how dreaming of a friend who had recently died could stem from a wish-fulfilment? Everything would seem to point in the opposite direction inasmuch that the last thing one would wish concerning a friend is their death. Yet Lacan argues that the dream does fulfil the wish of not wanting to forget that friend. Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Félix argue that the dreams and more particularly the delusions of schizophrenia are exceptions to this thesis.