Max describes to his psychotherapist recent dreams in which he flies like an eagle. his therapist offers the interpretation that this dream signifies max's unconscious desire to be free of his family obligations. max's therapist is displaying an interest in the content of max's dreams.

Max's therapist is displaying an interest in the "latent" content of max's dreams.

Dream interpretation depends on the possibility that the occasions you had always wanted serve to mask the genuine importance you had always wanted or latent content.

The latent content alludes to the representative importance of a fantasy that lies behind the exacting substance of the fantasy. The concealed significance of dreams assumed an imperative job in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic hypothesis. He likewise trusted that bringing the concealed importance of a fantasy into cognizant mindfulness could ease mental trouble.