Josef, a high school student, tells his therapist that he has had a recurring dream in which he hunts and kills a ferocious tiger. The therapist explains that the dream reflects Josef's unresolved feelings of hostility toward his father. According to Freud, the therapist is revealing the possible ________ content of Josef's dream.

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According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, the manifest content of a dream refers to its surface-level storyline while the latent content refers to its underlying, unconscious meaning. The therapist in this scenario is interpreting the dream as a reflection of unresolved hostility toward Josef's father, which would be an example of the latent content. Therefore, choice B, latent, is the best answer. A, manifest, is incorrect because that refers to the literal events of the dream. C, circadian, is a term relating to the body's daily biological rhythms and is not relevant to dream interpretation. D, dissociated, does not make sense in this context.

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