A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey, the boss gets off the train at a terminal. The content of this dream, as related by the client to the therapist is what Freud called its ________ content.

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The manifest content of a dream refers to the actual content that the dreamer remembers and reports to the therapist. In this case, the dreamer reports riding on a train with his boss and the boss getting off at a terminal. The latent content, on the other hand, refers to the underlying, unconscious meaning of the dream. Freud believed that the manifest content represented a symbolic expression of the latent content. The primary and secondary processes are part of Freud's theory of the structure of the mind and do not directly relate to dream content.

A Client Tells His Therapist About a Dream of Riding