Question

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 __________ content.

Answer 1

Answer:

• 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 latent content.                                                                                                                                                        

Answer 2

Answer:

This question lacks options, options are:

a. Deep  

b. Latent  

c. Manifest  

d. Subliminal  

The correct answer is b.

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 latent content.

Explanation:

According to Sigmund Freud, the latent content is the set of meanings (desires or drives) to which the analysis of a production of the unconscious (especially dreams) leads, that is, the latent content is the true and authentic meaning of the content of the dream that it expresses a repressed desire of the patient. Freud thought that through dreams we could understand our internal conflicts and most of these desires are expressed in the latent content and only this analysis of the interpretation of dreams can reveal his hidden desire.