What a dream symbolizes, or the material that is disguised in a dream to protect the dreamer. go to glossary index
In psychoanalytic interpretation, the actual wishes and concerns that a dream or behavior is intended to express; usually contrasted with manifest content.
The hidden (i.e., unconscious) meaning of thoughts or actions, especially in dreams or fantasies. In dreams, it is expressed in distorted, disguised, condensed, and symbolic form.
According to Freud, the true meaning of dreams that is found in the symbols in their manifest content.
In dreams, the presumed true meaning hidden behind the manifest content.
(psychoanalysis) hidden meaning of a fantasy or dream
the underlying meaning behind the symbols in a dream.
Sigmund Freud's term for the true, though disguised, meaning of a dream. (209)
The underlying significance of a dream (such as the motives of wishes being expressed by it) as interpreted from the manifest content. See also manifest content.