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latent content

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content /con·tent/ (kon´tent) that which is contained within a thing.
latent content  the hidden and unconscious true meaning of a symbolic representation such as a dream or fantasy.
manifest content  the content of a dream or fantasy as it is experienced and remembered, and in which the latent content is disguised and distorted by various mechanisms.

latent content
n.
The hidden meaning of a dream, fantasy, or thought that can be revealed through interpretation of its images or through free association in psychoanalysis.

latent content
Psychiatry The unconscious significance of thoughts or actions, especially in dreams or fantasies; LC in dreams is expressed in distorted, disguised, condensed, and symbolic form


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To see the latent content, the addressee must "grab" the message from the beaming crowd as he would a pluck a point of light from a summer cloud of fireflies.
Foregrounding the latent content of Minimalism's pristine forms, his soft, mobile rectangles brought art to "life" only to underscore the gallery's funereal aura.
 
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