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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.

content [kon´tent]
that which is contained within a thing.
latent content 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.
manifest content in freudian theory, the content of a dream or fantasy as it is experienced and remembered, and in which the latent content is disguised and distorted by displacement, condensation, symbolization, projection, and secondary elaboration.

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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