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Latent content — OCR GCSE Psychology Definition

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The hidden meaning of a dream, which Freud believed expressed unconscious wishes.

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OCR GCSE Psychology · J203

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Latent content is the hidden meaning that Freud believed lay behind those images: the unconscious wish being expressed.
Revise: Freudian Dream Theory and Its Criticisms
The underlying unconscious meaning that Freud believed was disguised within a dream.
Revise: Freud (1918): The Wolfman Dream Analysis Study

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Keep manifest and latent content separate: manifest is the remembered dream; latent is its proposed hidden meaning.

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Longitudinal study

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