and latent content In Die Traumdeutung (1900), translated as The Interpretation of Dreams (1953), Freud, Sigmund calls the dream that the analysand or patient recalls the manifest content because this is how the dream appears to them; but, he argues, that appearance conceals a deeper truth, which he calls the latent content, and designates as the dreamâs thought. It is latent in the sense that it is implicit in the manifest content, but because of the transformations and distortions enacted by the dreamwork it is for all intents and purposes invisible. It is the latent content that his analysis seeks to reveal.