latent content
Americannoun
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“Sleep and dreaming is where we’re able to process all of the latent content, probably anxiety-based, that we can’t process during the day,” says Lisa Schievelbein, a Washington-based clinical psychologist.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2020
By now, widespread disenchantment with Freud’s interpretive code has resulted in a wholesale dismissal of dreams’ latent content.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
As Slavoj Žižek points out in his guide to Lacanian psychoanalysis, How to Read Lacan, we must distinguish manifest from latent content.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2013
If the surface story is only half the story in a painting, the "latent content" is the other half, the question the artist answered without consciously asking it.
From Time Magazine Archive
We should say that while the manifest content of the dream is nonsensical, its true or latent content is usually logical and expressive of some wish that has been suppressed in the waking state.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
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