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manifest 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.

man·i·fest content (mn-fst)
n.
The content of a dream, fantasy, or thought as it is remembered and reported 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.

manifest content
Psychiatry The remembered content of a dream or fantasy, as contrasted with latent content, which is concealed and distorted


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Berelson (1952) defines content analysis as "a research technique for the objective, systematic, and quantitative description of the manifest content of communication".
The manifest content of the dream represents a series of distortions by the dream work of the latent content, and the latter has to be interpreted by the techniques of dream interpretation.
The manifest content of dreams will often prove more bizarre than these experiences, but both seem to have important psychological significance and neither should be dismissed casually.
 
 
 
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