Consider the following dream: "A whole crowd of children-all of her brothers, sisters, and cousins-were romping in a field.Suddenly they all grew wings, flew away, and disappeared." The anxiety-provoking, hidden, and symbolic meaning of the dream as a death wish represents the dream's:
A)basic hedonic tone.
B)latent content.
C)manifest content.
D)memory-consolidating function.

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The latent content of a dream refers to the hidden, symbolic meaning behind the dream's storyline, which in psychoanalytic theory can reveal unconscious wishes or thoughts. In this case, the anxiety-provoking idea of the children flying away and disappearing symbolizes a death wish, making it the latent content.

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