The hidden (i.e., unconscious) meaning of thoughts or actions, especially in dreams or fantasies. In dreams, it is expressed in distorted, disguised, condensed, and symbolic form. Contrast with manifest content.
In psychoanalytic theory, repressed wishes that are indirectly expressed in the manifest content of dreams.
In psychoanalysis, that part of a dream or unconscious mental content that cannot be brought into the objective consciousness through any effort of will to remember.