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 dream's ________ content.

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The therapist is interpreting the underlying meaning of the dream, which is the latent content according to Freud's theory. The manifest content refers to the actual events and images in the dream.

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