Matt reported a dream in which he repeatedly fell off a horse.His therapist suggested that his dream reflected Matt's mixed feelings of affection and resentment toward his father.According to Freud,the therapist was attempting to reveal the dream's

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The therapist was attempting to reveal the dream's latent content, which is the hidden symbolic meaning behind the manifest content (what actually happened in the dream). According to Freudian theory, dreams are a way of expressing repressed or unconscious desires and conflicts, so the therapist's interpretation suggests that Matt's dream about falling off a horse was really about his conflicted feelings towards his father. The other answer choices (factor analysis, erogenous zone, psychosexual stage) are not relevant to this scenario.

Matt Reported a Dream in Which He Repeatedly Fell Off