which theorist described dreams as having manifest and latent content?
It is doing its job by protecting the conscious mind from the disturbing. images and desires conjured by the unconscious. Freudian Dream Tools: According to Freud, dreams always have a manifest and latent content. The manifest content. is what the dream seems to be saying. It is often bizarre and nonsensical. The latent content. is what the dream is really trying to say. Dreams give us a look into our unconscious. Freud. believes that we can chip through the dream's manifest content to reveal the underlying. significance and its latent by utilizing the technique of free association.