A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey, the boss gets off the train at a terminal. The therapist suggests that the "terminal" in the dream indicates an unconscious desire by the client to "terminate" his boss. This desire to terminate the boss, if it exists, would reflect what Freud called the __________ content of the dream.

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The therapist's interpretation of the dream suggests that there is an underlying or hidden meaning to the dream, which is what Freud referred to as the latent content. The manifest content refers to the actual events and images that occur in the dream. The primary and secondary processes are part of Freud's theory of the structure of the mind and are not directly related to dream interpretation.

A Client Tells His Therapist About a Dream of Riding