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
Thereafter, the observer comes to interpret the re-appearance of C in a dream narrative as a sign of the presence of the affiliated idea A, in the latent content.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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