During his therapy session, Brent told his psychotherapist that he had a recurring dream in which he was fighting a pilot on an airplane and struggling to take over the controls. In terms of Freud's psychoanalytic view of dreams, the airplane, the pilot, and fighting would all be considered to be the dream's _____ content.

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In Freud's psychoanalytic view, the manifest content of a dream includes the actual literal content and storyline of the dream, such as the objects, people, and events that occur in the dream. In this case, the airplane, the pilot, and the fighting are all parts of the dream's storyline, making them part of its manifest content.

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