latent content
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[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 formla·tent con·tent
(lā'tĕnt kon'tent)The hidden, unconscious meaning of thoughts or actions, especially in dreams or fantasies.