manifest and latent content, n.Definitions

A Manifest and latent content (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only a façade that tells nothing of the house behind it — indeed, carefully conceals it.

Manifest and latent content (n.) are ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not façade and secret: the dream-façade is no fake but, like the front of a house, follows the plan and betrays the interior; the dream is not a disguise but a text we cannot yet read.

A Manifest and latent content (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a fake Latin inscription concealing a scurrilous sentence in dialect: ignore its look of antiquity, read the letters, and combine them into your mother tongue.

Manifest and latent content (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a transcript of the dream-thoughts into a pictographic script whose signs must be read by their symbolic relation, not their pictorial value.