A young man dreams of pulling a pistol from his waistband and aiming at a target, while his wife watches.The pistol repeatedly fails to discharge, and the man's wife laughs at him.A Freudian psychoanalyst might see the symbolic, or _____ content of this dream to mean that the young man is suffering from repressed feelings of sexual impotence.

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The latent content of a dream is the symbolic or underlying meaning that can be interpreted by a psychoanalyst. In this dream, the failure of the pistol to discharge could be seen as a metaphor for the young man's perceived lack of sexual potency. The laughing wife may also represent his feelings of inadequacy and emasculation. Therefore, D) latent is the best choice for this question.

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