Manifest and Latent Content

From The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud (trans. A. A. Brill)
Freud's foundational distinction between the dream as remembered (manifest) and the underlying unconscious thoughts it disguises (latent).
Chapter IV: Distortion in Dreams

Establishes that the censor distorts the latent dream-thoughts to produce the manifest dream we recall.

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