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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The therapist is revealing the latent content of Josef's dream, as Freud believed that dreams have a hidden, unconscious meaning (the latent content) that is disguised by the manifest content (the actual events and images of the dream). In this case, the therapist is interpreting the symbolic events of the dream (hunting and killing a ferocious tiger) as reflecting Josef's unconscious hostility towards his father.

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