Jacob dreamt that he was driving a shiny red sports car and that he was pulled over by the police, but the officer was his best
friend. His psychoanalyst interpreted this dream as meaning that Jacob feels his friend is holding him back. Jacob's actual dream represents the _____ content and the interpretation represents the _____ content.
According to psychoanalysis, dreams are made up of two different components:
Manifest content: This refers to the actual dream, in other words, the images, and the literal content of the dream and the story of it.
Latent content: This refers to the hidden meaning the manifest content is hiding. In other words, is the interpretation of the literal content to give it a meaning based on the symbols and the story of the individual
In this example Jacob dreams that he was driving a shiny red sports car and that he was pulled over by the police who was his friend. Since this is t<u>he literal content, </u>Jacob's actual dream represents the manifest content.
On the other hand, his psychoanalyst interpreted this dream as meaning that Jacob feels his friend is holding him back, since this is an <u>interpretation</u> of the dream, it represents the latent content.
