Elaine remembers a dream in which a car was parked in front of her house and a man with a baseball bat kept getting in and out of the car. According to Sigmund Freud's theory, the specific dream details that Elaine remembers are called the _____ content.

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According to Freud's theory, manifest content refers to the specific details that a dreamer remembers upon waking, while latent content refers to the underlying, symbolic meaning of the dream. The dream described in the question involves specific details (a car and a man with a baseball bat), so it is an example of manifest content.

Elaine Remembers a Dream in Which a Car Was Parked