Question

Greg remembered a recent dream in which his girlfriend suddenly grabbed the wheel of his speeding car. Greg's therapist suggested that the dream might be a representation of the girlfriend's efforts to avoid sexual intimacy. According to Freud, the therapist was attempting to reveal the ________ of Greg's dream.

A) emotional content
B) circadian rhythm
C) latent content
D) manifest content

Answer 1

Latent content

Explanation:

Dream analysis was proposed by Sigmund Freud. The dream has two content meaning

Latent Content analysis: Latent content has deep meaning. It is the symbolic meaning of the dream. It is a hidden meaning of the dream and it is hidden meaning that plays a great role in the dream analysis process. It is the process to bring out the hidden meaning in the consciousness that can relieve the psychological distress of a person.

• Manifest content analysis

Thus in the above statement, Greg remembered the latent content of the dream.