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 of the dream as a desire for divorce represents the dream's latent content. The latent content is the symbolic or underlying meaning of a dream that is represented through its manifest content (the actual events and images of the dream). Freud believed that understanding the latent content was crucial for uncovering unconscious desires and conflicts. The other choices are not as fitting for the given information: metaphoric suggests a focus on symbolism rather than underlying meaning, manifest suggests an interpretation of the literal content of the dream, and disguised is not a commonly used term in Freudian dream theory.

A Client Tells His Therapist About a Dream in Which