A client tells his therapist about a dream in which he drives his wife to the airport, where she boards a plane. As the plane takes off, he is smiling. The therapist says the dream suggests a desire for a divorce. The therapist's interpretation represents what Sigmund Freud called the ____________ of the dream.

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The therapist's interpretation represents the latent content of the dream, which is the unconscious meaning behind the manifest content (the actual events and images in the dream). Freud believed that dreams were expressions of repressed desires and conflicts from the unconscious mind.

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