A usually mild-mannered client tells her therapist about a disturbing dream that she had about spray-painting her boss's office and filling it with Jell-O.The therapist believes this dream represents the client's unconscious desires to be aggressive.This therapist's views are most consistent with which model/theory of dreams?

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Freud's psychoanalytic theory of dreaming proposes that dreams are a representation of the unconscious mind, and that the manifest content (what appears in the dream) is a symbolic expression of latent content (deeper unconscious desires or conflicts). In this case, the therapist believes that the dream represents the client's unconscious desires to be aggressive towards her boss.

A Usually Mild-Mannered Client Tells Her Therapist About a Disturbing