Question

A client tells his therapist about a dream of riding on a train with his boss. At the end of the journey, the boss gets off the train at a terminal. The therapist suggests that the "terminal" in the dream indicates an unconscious desire by the client to "terminate" his boss. This desire to terminate the boss, if it exists, would reflect what Freud called the ________ content of the dream.

Answer 1

The desire would reflect what Freud called the Manifest content of the dream

According to a Freudian analysis of dreams, our dream is the manifestation of our subconscious thinking from our everyday lives.
In this case, the analyst concludes that the clients desire to leave his boss manifested into the boss leaving on the terminal in his dreams.