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 ________.

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The therapist's interpretation is an example of what Freud called the latent content of the dream - the underlying, unconscious desires or fears that can be inferred from the dream's manifest content (the literal, surface-level events of the dream).

A Client Tells His Therapist About a Dream in Which