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 details of the events of this dream, as related by the client to the therapist, is what Freud called its

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Freud distinguished between the manifest (apparent) content of dreams, which is the actual plot of the dream as it is recalled by the dreamer, and the latent (hidden) content, which refers to the symbolic meaning of the dream. The details of the events of this dream, as related by the client to the therapist, are the manifest content.

A Client Tells His Therapist About a Dream of Riding