latent content

latent content
latent content n the underlying meaning of a dream or thought that is exposed in psychoanalysis by interpretation of its symbols or by free association compare MANIFEST CONTENT

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in freudian theory, the hidden and unconscious true meaning of a symbolic representation, such as a dream or fantasy, as opposed to the manifest content.

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