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's interpretation represents the latent content of the dream. The latent content refers to the hidden, unconscious meaning behind the dream symbols and events, while the manifest content refers to the literal, surface-level elements of the dream itself. Freud believed that the latent content often represented repressed desires or conflicts that the dreamer was not consciously aware of.

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