latent content

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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.

la·tent con·tent

the hidden, unconscious meaning of thoughts or actions, especially in dreams or fantasies.

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

la·tent con·tent

(lā'tĕnt kon'tent)

The hidden, unconscious meaning of thoughts or actions, especially in dreams or fantasies.

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A latent content analysis is needed to shed light on this finding, as well as the seeming notion that there were so few differences between male and female representation in these texts otherwise.

Discussion of Manifest and Latent Content Analyses: The Erasure of Male Social Workers

Taking into consideration how the manifest content and latent content analyses inform one another places the data in Agger's (1989) work on critical theory of text.

This agenda, however, is as constraining as it is inclusive, a notion that a latent content analysis can bring to light.

The latent content analysis further subverts what is read on the surface.

Yet a latent content analysis fails to even privilege the male social worker in this rendering.

Further evidence of this erasure of men can be viewed in the latent content analysis of indices.

Elevated or erased? A content analysis of the portrayal of men in introduction to social work textbooks

The latent content of this discourse had to do with their apparent formulation of a willingness to follow in Fillmore's footsteps to become activist teachers in a reconceptualization of their professional identities.

Retrospective reflections like these offered an additional dimension for the latent content of the discourse in both categories, the realization that not only were these topics essential for the students' professional growth, but that they had been inexcusably absent from the preservice curriculum that they experienced.

Informed by literature on Latino teachers' identity formation and advocacy, the inductive content analysis found a latent content in the family language practices and globalization categories that had to do with the preservice students' search for ideas they considered important that were missing in their teacher preparation courses.

Bilingual education: using a virtual guest speaker and online discussion to expand Latino preservice teachers' consciousness