latent content
Noun
Meaning
(psychoanalysis) hidden meaning of a fantasy or dream
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Examples
For Freud an unpleasant manifest content may still represent the fulfilment of a wish on the level of the latent content.
In the clinical setting Freud encouraged free association to the dream's manifest content in order to facilitate access to its latent content.
Manifest content often masks or obscures latent content.
Freud's theory describes dreams as having both manifest and latent content.