James dreamed that he went to his neighbor's house at midnight and made himself a sandwich. His psychoanalyst interpreted the dream to mean that James really wanted to go to bed with his neighbor's wife. Making the sandwich was the ________ content of the dream.

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The manifest content of a dream refers to the actual events and images that occur within the dream, while the latent content is the underlying, symbolic meaning of the dream. In this case, making a sandwich is simply the manifest content of the dream, rather than a symbolic representation of a desire for someone else's spouse (as suggested by the psychoanalyst's interpretation).

James Dreamed That He Went to His Neighbor's House at Midnight